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A nameless narrator and his friend Alberto move through a constantly morphing continuum of dream-like situations while discussing philosophy, literature, and war.The impossible question of an enormous student in a lecture hall at an English university sets off a series of alternate paths that openbefore them like a fan. In taverns, boats, and plazas, the two protagonists discuss John Donne, Lawrence of Arabia, and Lenin with English students, a group of young and old women, and eight hundred drinkers, all the while being dropped from one strange place into the next. A remarkable work of refined surreal comedy.

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Argentinean wunderkind Katchadjian is currently in legal trouble in his native country for daring to remix a novel by the late writer Jorge Luis Borges, so it's an interesting time to introduce him to English readers. -Kirkus Reviews

The overall effect falls somewhere between the delicate constructions of Cesar Aira and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five * 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 -- Damian Tabarovsky

If the book overflows with talent, if for moments it borders on genius . . . it s because <i>What To Do</i> . . . is the great contemporary novel on the expansion of meaning, its amplification, its mutation. -Damian Tabarovsky

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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. Priscilla Posada is a literary translator from Spanish into English. She is currently working on a translation of Pablo Katchadjian’s novel Thanks.

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