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What to Do

Pablo Katchadjian author Priscilla Posada translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:29th Dec '16

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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.

The overall effect falls somewhere between the delicate constructions of Cesar Aira and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five

* Kirkus Reviews *

If the book overflows with talent, if for moments it borders on genius . . . it’s because What To Do . . . is the great contemporary novel on the expansion of meaning, its amplification, its mutation

-- Damian Tabaro

ISBN: 9781564787057

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

112 pages