Thanks

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 Kojève.

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.

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 to English. Her translations include Katchadjian’s earlier novel What To Do, published by Dalkey Archive.