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novella for NovNov Novellas in November! Melodrome by Argentinian author Marcelo Cohen is really interesting reading, and at onlypages long, its easy to romp through it in a day.
Its from Giramondos Southern Latitudes series, indulging an interest in countries to the east and west of us, in our own hemisphere.

Vaguely Orwellian without being derivative, and offering a critique of neoliberal capitalism without being heavyhanded, Melodrome is set in an indefinable future.
Its the story of Lerena Dost, a successful woman in executive management, who undertakes a bizarre quest to thank an enigmatic benefactor.
Lerena has lost her lover, her job and her home in short order but through quirky circumstances has won a major lottery.
Uneasy about unearned income, she wants to thank Dona Munava, whose hint provided the winning numbers, but it turns out to be more difficult than she thought.
So she enlists the help of her former lover, Suana Botilecue, a psychoanalyst who lost his job for having an unprofessional relationship with her and is now reduced to living among the homeless as their publiclyfunded counsellor.
It is one of these homeless who narrates the story,
Lerenas life has unravelled due to an unfortunate series of events, Her replacement lover dumped her because he thought she was manipulative, and she was so shocked that she wasnt able to react with her usual assertiveness when her rental manager gave her notice to quit.

She was well acquainted with the miserly sadism of real estate administrators, the deals they did with the judges and the

size of the bribes they demanded, but the guy was accusing her of fraudulently negotiating a rent reduction and manipulating the apartments elderly owner: the combination of charges left her gaping, with her tongue stuck to her palate.
And she cant be sure, but it may have been this silence that emboldened her boss to call her in to the personnel room two hours later and announce that, having observed for quite some time now how Lerenas attitude, with its combination of arrogance, pride, intimidation, assertiveness, moral blackmail and manipulative skill, was inhibiting rather than motivating the team of analysts under her supervision, quashing rather than nurturing their spirit of initiative, and not only making them inefficient as employees but also damaging them as people, he had decided to replace her thats the word he used, replace, not dismiss or fire, when in fact he had already prepared her resignation, and produced it then for her to sign, along with a piece of paper on which the sum of her severance pay was crisply inscribed: seven thousand panoramics.
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Panoramics and bitcards securely encrypted money cards are two of the many words coined to create a disorientating sense of a world familiar yet not quite our own, and the translator Chris Andrews has done a splendid job of rendering these in English.
Lerena drives a mincar, stops at anytime eatchas for a meal, sleeps overnight at a lodgitel and visits a sanit when nature calls.
There are Clearseers for surveillance and Guards who enforce checkpoints that no one, not even the Guard, can explain,
So, Suano joins Lerena on this bizarre road trip, where everyone they meet already knows about their quest,
To read the rest of my review please visit sitelink comm una genialidad el universo que inventa Cohen para contarnos una historia de dos, Y más. Con un estilo agil, sin demasiada preocupación por la transición entre momentos, la trama va sobreviviendo hasta que el lector empieza a impacientarse por la arbitrariedad del uso de neologismos que a veces remedan más al lenguaje con el que nos dirigimos a un niño o al lenguaje que alguien que no tiene demasiadas luces usa para mostrarse especial.
millatros, cafeto, Cordillen, papelulue y así

Highlights que uno debe mencionar para mostrar que efectivamente leyó el libro
El papel del psicologo como empleado público que atiende a los deshauciados pobres, en un rincón de un bar.
Another South American work from Giramondo's 'Southern Latitudes' translation project, this work by Cohen was first published inin Argentina, It's been translated by Chris Andrews, best known for his translations of Roberto Bolaño and César Aira and it's probably most akin to the work of the latter.
This novella has science fictional trappings, but it's more about the play of language than anything else, It's a challenging read, but a good one to puzzle over, Realmente no me gustó, creo que perdí el tiempo leyéndolo, Lerena Dost es una chica arrolladora y exitosa hasta que cae en desgracia: su novio la abandona, la despiden del trabajo, le exigen dejar el departamento que alquila y su madre, a quien recurre buscando amparo, la rechaza.
Parece una conspiración para aleccionarla: todos la acusan de ser una manipuladora,

Cuando Lerena empieza a sospechar que tienen razón, un encuentro providencial con una desconocida en un ascensor le brinda un número, que ella juega en la lotería.
Y gana. Pero Lerena decide que no tocará un centavo de sus millones hasta que no encuentre a esa mujer y le haga una retribución.
Lerena ignora que no persigue a unamujer cualquiera sino a alguien que acaso no crea en el agradecimiento y que no quiere dejarse encontrar.
Es DielsiMunava, ex cantante y oscura guía espiritual de los Atinados, una organización social que controla entre sombras la región central de isla Asunde.
Para encarar ese viaje, Lerena busca sostén en uno de los hombres quemás la conoció en la intimidad, Suano Botilecue, su ex psicólogo, un viejo amor y otra víctima de la personalidad de Lerena, no tiene claro qué deuda se propone pagar ella, ymientras la ayuda a averiguarlo hurga entre los rescoldos de una historia que lo hizo sufrir para descubrir qué permanece vivo y qué posibilidades hay de que una persona cambie.
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An unexpected delight, Playful, inventive, thoughtful, and surprisingly gripping, this little novel details the oddest of road trips in a nearfuture world very like our own called the Panoramic Delta.
Structured almost like an ouroboros and abounding in clever neologisms and striking imagery, 'Melodrome' is one of the most sophisticated books I've read this year, yet also one of the easiest and most pleasurable to read reminding me that great experimental literature should be fun to read and not a chore.
I'd love to read other books by Cohen, a fairly prolific author fourteen novels and five collections of short stories who sometimes labels his work "fantastic sociology".
Crossing my fingers that this excellent translation brings greater attention to his work in the Englishspeaking world,

Chris Andrews, the Balada's gifted translator, calls it "a kind of narrative palindrome" and that's an apt description too, .