Pola Oloixarac

Esta compilaci n es el resultado de la transcripci n textual de los conversatorios que tuvieron lugar en Zoom, en marzo de 2024, con motivo del vig simo aniversario de A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. Dichos conversatorios contaron con la participaci n de cuatro destacados escritores latinoamericanos, Pola Oloixarac (Argentina), Jorge Volpi (M xico), Patricio Pron (Argentina) y Nona Fern ndez (Chile); asimismo, sus interlocutores fueron los cr ticos Ariel Schettini, H ctor Jaimes, Greg Dawes y Mar a Rosa Olivera-Williams, respectivamente. En las reflexiones generadas a partir de estos di logos se exploran las formas en que la literatura act a como herramienta de resistencia frente al neoliberalismo contempor neo.

Pola Oloixarac, la autora que nos deslumbr con Las teor as salvajes, pone sobre la mesa el escrache en un libro disruptivo, incisivo y brillantemente pol mico. «Bad hombre es un libro inteligente, valeroso y extraordinariamente bien escrito . --Milena Busquets Durante un tiempo, Pola Oloixarac recibi una serie de invitaciones de mujeres que ten an un objetivo implacable: castigar a ciertos hombres, con quienes hab an mantenido, o no, una relaci n amorosa. Las denuncias que pesaban sobre ellos eran escalofriantes, y exigen que la narradora tome partido: est con la justicia feminista o con los bad hombres? No pod a haber t rmino medio. Fascinada y a veces perpleja, Oloixarac se interna en el laberinto de un sistema capaz de tender una nube de sospecha y condena sobre casi cualquier persona, incluida ella misma. A trav s de personajes cautivantes y por momentos monstruosos, la autora disecciona los mecanismos de la cancelaci n, a la vez que nos lleva a explorar las complejidades del sexo y el deseo. Pola Oloixarac ha escrito un libro pol mico y agudo, que discute con la dictadura de la correcci n pol tica, una novela radicalmente coyuntural que dialoga con un nuevo clima de poca: cuestionar lo que el feminismo ha construido hasta hoy. Al mismo tiempo, con su escritura cida y reflexiva, ha confeccionado en Bad hombre una novela ntima y apasionada por el poder o femenino, que trae a la luz escenas de Victoria Ocampo y sus amantes, sectas sexuales en California, basiliscos inform ticos y la exploraci n de las fuerzas centr fugas de una nueva configuraci n del mundo que nos atrae y desconcierta. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Pola Oloixarac, author of the stunning Savage Theories, takes on cancel culture in this disruptive, incisive, and brilliantly controversial book. "Bad Man is intelligent, brave and extraordinarily well written."- Milena Busquets Pola Oloixarac has been approached numerous times by women bent on punishing men, including former lovers. They denounce these men in scathing terms and demand that the author pick a side: either with her fellow women or the bad men in their lives. There can be no middle ground. Fascinated and sometimes perplexed, Oloixarac considers a system with the power to cast suspicion on virtually anyone, including herself. Informed by her interactions with persuasive and sometimes monstruous individuals, she analyzes the mechanisms of cancel culture and the complexities of sex and desire. Oloixarac has written a controversial and cutting book that examines the tyranny of political correctness and questions some aspects of feminism. But Bad Man is also an intimate and moving novel built on female empowerment that touches on such varied topics as Victoria Ocampo and her lovers, California sex cults, Roko's basilisk and the seemingly unstoppable forces driving new social configurations that simultaneously attract and dismay.

A contemporary classic from one of Latin America's most exciting young writers 'A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac's wit and ambition are evident on every page' Hari Kunzru Buenos Aires. The mysterious narrator, a student at the School of Philosophy, stalks a middle-aged professor, desperate to reveal that she alone understands his theories. Unable to earn his affection, she instead seduces a former guerilla and toys with him, blurring the lines between prey and predator. At the same university, bored student Kamtchowsky and her boyfriend Pabst's intellectual and sexual misadventures take them through the underground scene of Buenos Aires as they dabble in ketamine, group sex, video games and pornography. And in 1917 Africa, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet theorises the development of beast into man, and humanity's longstanding flirtation with beastly acts. Climaxing with an Internet hack that catalogues historical violence, devastation and atrocity throughout the centuries, Savage Theories is a kaleidoscopic collage that is spellbinding, strange and ground-breaking. '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' New York Times

One of the coolest literary debuts of the year - sexy, funny and thrillingly provocative

”På en gang en satirisk komedie, et rystende psykologisk portræt af en kvindes opløsning og et filosofisk anklageskrift. Læs den og bliv overrasket.” – Siri Hustvedt Mona er en ung peruansk forfatter, der lever et liv på kanten. Da hun for sin debutroman bliver nomineret til en fornem svensk litteraturpris, og en medstuderende samtidig efter en fest efterlader hende bevidstløs på en togperron, udskifter hun Californien med en skovsø i Sverige. I det idylliske svenske landskab er hun i nogle dage del af en gruppe internationale og meget selvoptagede forfattere, der holder hinanden i ånde erotisk og intellektuelt, mens de venter på juryens afgørelse af, hvem af dem der skal have den prestigefulde pris. Mona tuller rundt på festivalen i sin valiumbedøvede tilstand, indtil mødet med en lyshåret svensker får historien om de mange blå mærker på hendes krop til at træde frem af tågen. Med Mona tegner den argentinske forfatter Pola Oloixarac et fascinerende portræt af en forfatter med ”farvet-latina-inka-ikke-hvid” baggrund og hendes liv i den amerikansk-europæiske intellektuelle elite.

From Pola Oloixarac, the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, comes Mona, in which success as a "writer of color" proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman at a literary conference in Sweden. Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity--a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings--she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for "the most important literary award in Europe," Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, so she trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged--and mostly male--competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, and Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together. All the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won't stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.

Novela de ideas y suspenso, un thriller literario donde la clave del crimen est escondida en el cuerpo de una escritora que compite por un premio. «La prosa de Pola Oloixarac es el gran acontecimiento de la nueva narrativa argentina. Ricardo Piglia Vienen a estos lugares crey ndose escritores y se van como personajes, piensa Mona Tarrile-Byrne, joven narradora peruana. En su espiral de drogas californianas y derivas er ticas, Mona aterriza en un pueblito de Suecia junto con unos pocos colegas nominados al prestigioso premio literario Basske-Wortz. En ese lugar l mite -en la frontera del espacio habitable por la cultura, antes de la noche muerta del rtico-, descubre las marcas misteriosas de una violencia que no puede explicarse. Llegados de todo el mundo, los escritores se agradan y recelan, se miden y seducen. Entre las aventuras sexuales y mentales de la protagonista y los debates acerca de vanguardias, ideolog as y mercado -de TED talks a orgasmos borgianos-, Pola Oloixarac retrata con alucinante acidez el c rculo h pster de una weltliteratur imaginaria. La autora brilla en este thriller de ideas, una s tira devastadoramente actual de la brutalidad latente en las lites culturales y una oscura meditaci n sobre el poder de la lengua para transformar el mundo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A novel of ideas and suspense, a literary thriller where the key to the crime is hidden inside the body of a writer that's competing for a prize. Pola Oloixarca's prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Ricardo Piglia They come to these places believing themselves to be writers and they leave as characters, thinks Mona Tarrile-Byrne, a young Peruvian novelist. In her spiral of Californian drugs and erotic drifts, Mona lands in a small town in Sweden along with some other colleagues nominated for the prestigious literary prize Basske-Wortz. In that restricted place- on the border of the space habitable by culture, before the dead night of the Arctic, - she discovers the mysterious marks left by an act of violence that can't be explained. Arriving from all over the world, the writers like, fear, measure and seduce each other. Among the sexual and mental adventures of the protagonist, the debates about avant-garde, ideologies and the marketplace-from TED talks to Borgesian orgasms, - Pola Oloixarca portrays with amazing acidity the hipster circle of an imaginary weltliteratur. The author shines in this thriller of ideas, a satire devastatingly current about the latent brutality of the cultural elites and a dark meditation on the power of language to transform the world. The critics have said... Clearly The Wild Theories is] one of the first classics of the 21st Century that Latin American literature has given us. El Mundo Pola Oloixarca is] an exquisite anthropologist of contemporary barbarism. Ignacio Echevarr a A strong innovation in the Argentinian novel. Horacio Gonz lez Monstrously intelligent and horribly funny. Javier Calvo

"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 White Tears and 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.

Argentiinalaisen Pola Oloixaracin (s. 1977) brutaalin vakuuttava esikoisteos Kesyttömät teoriat on sekoitus filosofista romaania ja bloggariajan sävyttämää janeaustenmaista komediaa. Kirja on satiiri yliopiston akateemisesta faunasta ja samalla kaunistelematon tutkielma urbaaneista perversioista: undergroundpornosta, tietokonepeleistä, mielialalääkkeistä ja roskaruuasta, sekä rumuuden viehätyksestä, välinpitämättömyydestä ja friikeistä.Kesyttömät teoriat herätti ilmestyttyään kohua Argentiinassa. Se sai loistavat arvostelut ja mukavat myyntiluvut. Mutta negatiivistakin palautetta riitti. Machokulttuurissa nuoren ja kauniin naisen ei odoteta kirjoittavan älykästä aikalaisproosaa. Oloixarac on Etelä-Amerikassa tunnettu myös taidetta ja teknologiaa käsittelevistä artikkeleista eri julkaisuissa. Hän kuuluu lupaavimpiin espanjaksi kirjoittaviin kirjailijoihin. Hänet valittiin Grantan parhaiden espanjaksi kirjoittavien nuorten kirjailijoiden listalle loppuvuodesta 2010. Kesyttömät teoriat on Suomen lisäksi ilmestymässä lähiaikoina ainakin Hollannissa, Ranskassa, Italiassa ja Portugalissa.