| Thanks Contributor(s): Katchadjian, Pablo (Author), Posada, Priscilla (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1628972955 ISBN-13: 9781628972955 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 863.7 |
| LCCN: 2018026160 |
| Series: Argentinean Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.9" W x 7" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With a twisted sense of humor and a heavy dose of fantasy, Katchadjian takes those things that are so common as to be ordinary--bad bosses, crazy significant others, descent into drug use--and sets them in a realm that brings to mind Kafka or Koj ve. Our narrator presents us with a constantly moving array of bizarre, philosophically tinged excitement: a slave rebellion in a strange castle on an unnamed island, an attack of flying worms made of ash which either represents Adam's sin or the Oedipal complex, a feral young woman who lives off the grid on whatever she can scrounge, and a hallucinatory root that throws the narrator into a black void, which he comes to fear he may never escape. |
Contributor Bio(s): Katchadjian, Pablo: - Pablo Katchadjian was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. He is the author of three novels--What To Do, Thanks, and Total Freedom--and a wide array of short stories, poems, and essays. His artistic collaborations include an operatic adaptation of his work alongside the composer Lucas Fagin.Posada, Priscilla: - Priscilla Posada is a literary translator from Spanish to English. Her translations include Katchadjian's earlier novel What To Do, published by Dalkey Archive. |
