Pola Oloixarac

From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixarac’s Mona, where success as a "writer of color" proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman abroad. Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior: she likes drugs and cigarettes, has mysterious bruises on her neck, and pokes fun of American academic culture and its identity-fixation, of which she herself is a beneficiary: "In her role of overeducated Latina in the era of Trump, Mona experienced her serene captivity as a kind of freedom . . ." Nominated for "the most important literary prize in Europe," Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, and so trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jetlagged—and mostly male—competitors, arriving from Japan, Armenia, Iran, Iceland, Finland, and elsewhere. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: complement each other, envy each other, stab each other in the back, and go to bed with one another. Finding she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up in the middle of nowhere with them, Mona's adventures in Scandinavia paint a hypnotic, scabrous, and finally jawdropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she both does and does not belong. Bearing scars that are by no means merely literary, Mona endures plagiarism, patronization, and endless lectures, until her past catches up with her, and she triumphs at last, in a truly apocalyptic fashion. "Pola Oloixarac is one of the great writers of the Internet, the only country larger than Argentina." —Joshua Cohen

A Novel

Mona

Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac’s visionary new novel races from the world of 19th-century science to an ultra-surveilled near future, exploring humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, and leaping forward to the next steps in human evolution. Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century mania for scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruun researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another. Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet and becomes a prominent hacker, riding the wave of transformations brought about by distributed networks, mass surveillance, and new flows of globalized capital. The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: A research group works on a project that will allow the Ministry of Genetics to track every movement of the country’s citizens without their knowledge or consent, using sensors that identify DNA at a distance. But the new technology contains within it the seeds of a far more radical transformation of human life and civilization. In a novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac’s complexly intertwining stories reveal the power that resides in the world’s most deeply shadowed spaces.

Dark Constellations

"A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. 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 Gods Without Men A debut novel of seduction and madness, hate and love, set in the world of Argentine academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov and Bola�o Rosa Ostreech, a pseudonym for the novel's beautiful but self-conscious narrator, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires, dabbling in ketamine, group sex, video games, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors--animals, who, in the process of becoming human, spent thousands of years as prey. Savage Theories wryly explores fear and violence, war and sex, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible, visionary theories, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.

Savage Theories

"Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another. Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet, and demonstrates the skills and personality that will make him one of the first great Argentine hackers. The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: Piera, on the same research group as Cassio, studies human DNA. When the Estromatoliton project comes to fruition, the Argentine government will be able to track every movement of its citizens without their knowledge or consent, using censors that identify DNA at a distance."--

Roman

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Kryptozän

"Antiguos exploradores y nerds del siglo XXI. Biólogos y hackers. Todos tienen un códice por escribir. Todos disfrutan la sensación de control sobre otros seres humanos. Después de Las teorías salvajes, Pola Oloixarac reafirma con esta novela que su literatura va mucho más allá de narrar una historia de forma bella y efectiva. Cada instante y detalle multiplican su significado con la observación de la autora más singular y talentosa de la narrativa argentina, una antropóloga de las letras y de nuestro tiempo." --Contratapa.

Las constelaciones oscuras

Rosa Ostreech is de koningin van de faculteit der filosofie vindt ze zelf. Ze is slimmer dan je zou denken, mooier dan zou mogen en arroganter dan draaglijk is. Wat haar betreft houden de theorieën die zij en de andere studenten krijgen voorgeschoteld de vooruitgang tegen, zeker in deze multimediale tijden. Maar dan valt ze voor een oudere uitgebluste professor, wiens levenswerk ze wil herschrijven. Zijn ideeën kloppen in haar ogen nét niet, en Rosa gaat er vol passie mee aan de slag in de hoop zijn aandacht te krijgen. De stoffige filosofiefaculteit van de Universiteit van Buenos Aires is het decor van deze uitdagende, filosofische roman. Onuitstaanbare medestudenten, seks, drugs en een vergevorderd plan om Google Earth te hacken, vormen de ingrediënten van een veelbesproken literaire sensatie in de Spaanstalige literatuur: Het hoorcollege is een brutale en wellustige roman.

Hoorcollege

Le teorie selvagge

Canary Islands, 1882: Plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between human minds. Buenos Aires, 1983: Cassio comes of age with the Internet, and demonstrates the skills that will make him one of the first great Argentine hackers. The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: Piera studies for a government project to track citisens using their DNA. A dazzling novel of towering ambition about science, technology, and human consent.

Sieht so der Roman des 21. Jahrhunderts aus? Ein Porträt des Hackers als junger Mann und eine schwindelerregende tour de force in die allernächste Zukunft des Menschen. Rasant und rasend klug erzählt von Pola Oloixarac, der vielleicht umstrittensten Autorin der lateinamerikanischen Literatur. Zu Beginn der 1980er Jahre kommen sich in der subtropischen Sommerhitze Brasiliens eine Anthropologin und ein Flugzeugingenieur näher. Das Resultat dieser Verbindung von jüdisch-argentinischer und brasilianischer DNA heißt Cassio Liberman Brandão da Silva: Der Held ist geboren. Sozialisiert mit Castle Wolfenstein und Musik von den Dead Kennedys, erweist sich Cassio früh als Wunderkind der Kryptografie, dessen Viren in der Hacker-Szene als Kunstwerke betrachtet werden. Doch wie so oft bei Genies ohne Talent zur Entschlüsselung ihrer Mitmenschen, vereinsamt er zusehends. Der Programmierjob im Start-up ist eine Beleidigung für sein Gehirn und der Untergrundruhm vergessen – bis aus dem Nerd schließlich ein Weltenretter wird: Als Cassio genetische und digitale Daten zu mischen beginnt, erkennt er eine Wahrheit, die andere Forscher lange vor seiner Zeit bereits erahnt hatten. Auch Pola Oloixarac mischt in Kryptozän den Abenteuer- mit dem Bildungsroman und schafft, angereichert mit einer Prise Science-Fiction und abgründigem Humor à la Houellebecq, den ersten Hackerroman mit philosophischem Tiefgang.

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