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Savage theories, Pola Oloixarac ; translated by Roy Kesey

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Savage theories

Pola Oloixarac ; translated by Roy Kesey

Rosa Ostreech, a pseudonym for the novelâ s beautiful but self-conscious narrator, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotleâ 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 ancestorsâ animals, who, in the process of becoming human, spent thousands of years as prey