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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