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With a twisted sense of humor and a heavy dose of fantasy, Katchadjian takes those things that are so common as to be ordinary-bad bosses, crazy significant others, descent into drug use-and sets them in a realm that brings to mind Kafka or Kojve. Our narrator presents us with a constantly moving array of bizarre, philosophically tinged excitement: a slave rebellion in a strange castle on an unnamed island, an attack of flying worms made of ash which either represents Adam's sin or the Oedipal complex, a feral young woman who lives off the grid on whatever she can scrounge, and a hallucinatory root that throws the narrator into a black void, which he comes to fear he may never escape.

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The overall effect falls somewhere between the delicate constructions of Cesar Aira and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five (1969). --Kirkus Reviews If the book overflows with talent, if for moments it borders on genius . . . it's because What To Do . . . is the great contemporary novel on the expansion of meaning, its amplification, its mutation. --Dami n Tabarovsky

"""If the book overflows with talent, if for moments it borders on genius . . . it's because What To Do . . . is the great contemporary novel on the expansion of meaning, its amplification, its mutation.""-- ""Damián Tabarovsky on What To Do"" The overall effect falls somewhere between the delicate constructions of Cesar Aira and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.-- ""Kirkus Reviews on What To Do"""

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Pablo Katchadjian was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. He is the author of three novels-What To Do, Thanks, and Total Freedom-and a wide array of short stories, poems, and essays. His artistic collaborations include an operatic adaptation of his work alongside the composer Lucas Fagin.

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