A nameless narrator and his friend Alberto move through a constantly morphing continuum of dream-like situations while discussing philosophy, literature, and war. The impossible question of an enormous student in a lecture hall at an English university sets off a series of alternate paths that open before them like a fan. In taverns, boats, and plazas, the two protagonists discuss John Donne, Lawrence of Arabia, and Lenin with English students, a group of young and old women, and eight hundred drinkers, all the while being dropped from one strange place into the next. A remarkable work of refined surreal comedy.

What to Do (Argentinean Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Katchadjian, Pablo

United States

Dalkey Archive Press

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 Kojève.
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.

Thanks (Argentinean Literature)

Poetry. Cuts and repetitions, combinations, inventions, and games are the make-up of this book-length poem, by turns melancholy and hilarious. Proposing the question&mdash;which route to choose?&mdash;this work is a rhythmic inquiry into possible responses. Gathering momentum from dreams, dangers, confusion, and familiarity, THE ROU OF ALCH creates a landscape and a language that makes sense of itself as it goes.

The Rou of Alch (Senal, 3)

Poetry

Ugly Duckling Presse

Amado Señor

Genre Fiction

Hurtado y Ortega Editores H&O

Tres cuentos espirituales / Pablo Katchadjian.

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