“I would like to go into anaesthesia and live without feeling anything. Act automatically: look, breathe and nothing else. See everything, know and say nothing, but the memories are there, they are still there.”
‒ “Exquisite Corpse”, Agustina Bazterrica, 2017.
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This Saturday, Camila from Camilasbooks brings us a literary recommendation that you can't miss.
“Exquisite Corpse” by Argentine writer Agustina Bazterrica, is a novel that Camila describes as dystopian, and that focuses on a society where the consumption of human flesh has been legalized.
The novel, he says, presents a dystopian world where animals develop a lethal virus, which is why they have to be slaughtered in their entirety and because of this and the lack of meat to be consumed, the government decides to legalize the breeding, slaughter and consumption of human flesh, "and it is here where we enter a dark world, as well as a crude one."
Camila highlights that in this novel there are terrifying, disgusting and macabre scenarios, with a protagonist who works in a meat packing plant and who takes readers on a dark journey full of portraits of the human meat industry and how it works.
If you like dystopian novels and reading slightly macabre things, this novel is for you.
Would society really be capable of reaching this point?
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“Half carcass. Stunner. Slaughter line. Spray bath. Those words appear in his head and hit him. They destroy him. But they are not just words. They are the blood, the thick smell, the automation, the not thinking. They burst in at night, when he is unaware. He wakes up with a layer of sweat covering his body because he knows another day of slaughtering humans awaits him.”
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