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Bad air days: Savage Theories, by Pola Oloixarac, reviewed

University students immersed in drug-and-group-sex and online gaming reveal the dark side of Buenos Aires

4 January 2025

9:00 AM

4 January 2025

9:00 AM

Savage Theories Pola Oloixarac, translated by Roy Kesey

Serpent’s Tail, pp.288, 10.99

According to a 2016 report published by the World Health Organisation, Argentina is the ‘therapy capital of the world’, boasting 222 psychologists per 100,000 people. Reading the Argentine writer Pola Oloixarac’s Savage Theories, I can understand why.

The novel is quick to mock the posturing of the academic world, especially in Buenos Aires

The novel follows three characters, each more bizarre and beguiling than the last.

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