Giant Eye Watching
Adam Thirlwell: Pola Oloixarac, 10 February 2022
Mona
by Pola Oloixarac, translated by Adam Morris.
Serpent’s Tail, 192 pp., £12.99, February,978 1 78816 988 2 Show More
by Pola Oloixarac, translated by Adam Morris.
Serpent’s Tail, 192 pp., £12.99, February,
“... Pola Oloixarac has written three novels, though calling them novels seems too reassuringly bland. They’re baroquely layered with ideas, hacker theory, anthropology, natural history, mythology, dystopias. I admire them very much, but reading them can also bring moments of boredom or impatience. Ideas are allowed to expand in unexpected habitats ... ”
