Op Oloop

Juan Filloy

• Other Authors Lisa Dillman (Translator)
• Title

  Op Oloop

• Date 2009 [1934]
• ISBN 9789871772230
• Publisher Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archives Press
• Description 251 p; 8 in
• Language English, translated from Portugese
• Collections Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection
• Summary

  Mr. Optimus Oloop is a Finnish statistician living in Buenos Aires. His life runs according to a methodical and rigid schedule, with everything--from his meals down to his regular visits to the city brothels--timed to the minute. But when an insignificant traffic delay upsets this sacred schedule, and on the day of Oloop's engagement party, the clock begins ticking down towards a catastrophe that no amount of planning will avert. A playful and unpredictable masterpiece of Argentinean literature, raising comparisons to Ulysses and serving as a primary inspiration to authors such as Julio Cortazar and Alfonso Reyes, Op Oloop is the first novel by lawyer, Hellenist, boxing referee, and decagenarian Juan Filloy (1894-2000) to be translated into English (Fantastic Fiction). 

• Tags Argentinian Literature, Latin American literature