Savage Theories

Name: Savage Theories
Brand: Profile Books
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'Philosophy gets sexy' Vanity Fair

By: Pola Oloixarac

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Paperback | 4 February 2025

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288 Pages

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19.6 x 12.8

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A star of Latin American literature's controversial and dazzling debut novel published in the UK for the first time

A novel of seduction and madness, animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov and Bola±o.Buenos Aires. The mysterious narrator, who is 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 strategically seduces a former leftist guerilla and toys with him, blurring the lines between prey and predator. Parallel to this narrative, we follow little Kamtchowsky as she grows from sexually liberated adolescent to transgressive documentary filmmaker. Through her and her boyfriend Pabst's intellectual and sexual misadventures, we witness the underground scene of Buenos Aires as they dabble in ketamine, group sex, video games and pornography. As an aside, 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.

Industry Reviews

'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 Bolano 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

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