Savage Theories

Livewire ... the novel keeps us rapt with the winningly devil-may-care energy brought to its slantwise take on the fallout from Argentina's bloody political history * Daily Mail *
Oloixarac's wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded -- Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears
Philosophy gets sexy in Pola Oloixarac's Savage Theories * Vanity Fair *
[An] exuberant blend of political satire and sexual picaresque. This book rewards total immersion: Come for the inevitable Borges allusions, stay for the wild ride * The New York Times Book Review *
While there are echoes of Borges and Bolaño here, the synthesis of ideas and the manic intelligence are wholly new. Brilliant, original, and very fun to read * Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review *
A radical, bitingly funny debut novel offers a veritable hurricane of ideas on topics from technology to anthropology and features parallel arcs, one involving a student obsessed with her professor and the other about a couple cruising the Buenos Aires underground * O, Oprah Magazine *
Pola Oloixarac is one of the great writers of the Internet, the only country larger than Argentina -- Joshua Cohen, author of Moving Kings
A wild treatise ... it is easy to see why Savage Theories has been causing quite a buzz for almost two decades * Skinny *
This debut novel announces a huge, rambunctious talent, with its hilarious and ribald glimpse of intellectual and sexual politics in a post-post revolutionary Argentina * Boston Globe *
San Francisco's Pola Oloixarac, named one of Granta's Best Young Spanish Novelists, takes the reader on a surreal journey through her native Argentina in Savage Theories * Mercury News *
Savage Theories presents a deep-focus tableau wherein theory and praxis, subject and object, past and present share a single stage in an ongoing, immemorial drama. Its kaleidoscopic vision of a densely layered life-world illuminates the sheer scope of existence. Oloixarac's creative force is ferocious, comprehensive, tidal. Her debut novel formulates one of the most thoroughgoing theories of the way we live now * Rumpus *
Oloixarac's brilliant, dextrous, debut novel, is a twisty tale of academia, lust, and culture. The author's ability to incorporate diverse elements, including 1970s Argentinian sex comedies, early 20th-century psychological theory, Elton John and Thomas Hobbes singing in bed, makes for singular and humorous experience. Perhaps best of all is Oloixarac's prose: discursive, surprising and off-kilter-like the characters themselves, it reveals a ceaseless appetite for understanding and belonging * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *
[A] transgressive novel of revolution, desire, and academia . . . Savage Theories compels with its energetic characters, and the seamless blend of desire and theorizing is contagious on both fronts * Words Without Borders *
In this dazzling, frantic tour de force, Argentine author Oloixarac traces several intertwining threads. She also manages to resurrect ghosts from Argentina's Dirty War and dive headfirst into the twenty-first century's strange technological frontier...readers willing to indulge this careening carousel of a novel will be rewarded with an unexpectedly prescient experience * Booklist *
Clearly one of the first Latin American classics of the twenty-first century * El Mundo *
A prodigious, masterful novel * Le Figaro *
A strange, bewildering debut novel, an eccentric baroque fantasy * Les Inrockuptibles *
Savage Theories is a novel of ideas, exploring the violent nature of humans . . . this is the type of book you read when you want great writing and to learn something about the world * Translated Lit *
Pola Oloixarac's prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable, philosophical and very serene -- Ricardo Piglia, author of Target in the Night
Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write -- Javier Calvo, author of Wonderful World
A provocative, brave, controversial novel -- Vicente Luis Mora, author of Pangea: Internet, Blogs and Communication in a New World
Livewire ... the novel keeps us rapt with the winningly devil-may-care energy brought to its slantwise take on the fallout from Argentina's bloody political history * Daily Mail *
Oloixarac's wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded -- Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears
Philosophy gets sexy in Pola Oloixarac's Savage Theories * Vanity Fair *
[An] exuberant blend of political satire and sexual picaresque. This book rewards total immersion: Come for the inevitable Borges allusions, stay for the wild ride * The New York Times Book Review *
While there are echoes of Borges and Bolaño here, the synthesis of ideas and the manic intelligence are wholly new. Brilliant, original, and very fun to read * Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review *
A radical, bitingly funny debut novel offers a veritable hurricane of ideas on topics from technology to anthropology and features parallel arcs, one involving a student obsessed with her professor and the other about a couple cruising the Buenos Aires underground * O, Oprah Magazine *
Pola Oloixarac is one of the great writers of the Internet, the only country larger than Argentina -- Joshua Cohen, author of Moving Kings
A wild treatise ... it is easy to see why Savage Theories has been causing quite a buzz for almost two decades * Skinny *
This debut novel announces a huge, rambunctious talent, with its hilarious and ribald glimpse of intellectual and sexual politics in a post-post revolutionary Argentina * Boston Globe *
San Francisco's Pola Oloixarac, named one of Granta's Best Young Spanish Novelists, takes the reader on a surreal journey through her native Argentina in Savage Theories * Mercury News *
Savage Theories presents a deep-focus tableau wherein theory and praxis, subject and object, past and present share a single stage in an ongoing, immemorial drama. Its kaleidoscopic vision of a densely layered life-world illuminates the sheer scope of existence. Oloixarac's creative force is ferocious, comprehensive, tidal. Her debut novel formulates one of the most thoroughgoing theories of the way we live now * Rumpus *
Oloixarac's brilliant, dextrous, debut novel, is a twisty tale of academia, lust, and culture. The author's ability to incorporate diverse elements, including 1970s Argentinian sex comedies, early 20th-century psychological theory, Elton John and Thomas Hobbes singing in bed, makes for singular and humorous experience. Perhaps best of all is Oloixarac's prose: discursive, surprising and off-kilter-like the characters themselves, it reveals a ceaseless appetite for understanding and belonging * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *
[A] transgressive novel of revolution, desire, and academia . . . Savage Theories compels with its energetic characters, and the seamless blend of desire and theorizing is contagious on both fronts * Words Without Borders *
In this dazzling, frantic tour de force, Argentine author Oloixarac traces several intertwining threads. She also manages to resurrect ghosts from Argentina's Dirty War and dive headfirst into the twenty-first century's strange technological frontier...readers willing to indulge this careening carousel of a novel will be rewarded with an unexpectedly prescient experience * Booklist *
Clearly one of the first Latin American classics of the twenty-first century * El Mundo *
A prodigious, masterful novel * Le Figaro *
A strange, bewildering debut novel, an eccentric baroque fantasy * Les Inrockuptibles *
Savage Theories is a novel of ideas, exploring the violent nature of humans . . . this is the type of book you read when you want great writing and to learn something about the world * Translated Lit *
Pola Oloixarac's prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable, philosophical and very serene -- Ricardo Piglia, author of Target in the Night
Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write -- Javier Calvo, author of Wonderful World
A provocative, brave, controversial novel -- Vicente Luis Mora, author of Pangea: Internet, Blogs and Communication in a New World