Senselessness

Reviews

"I recommend Horacio Castellanos Moya’s fantastic Senselessness, in which a writer takes on the dangerous job of editing a report on military atrocities in an unnamed country. Both a descent into hell and a book about how one becomes human." — Junot Diaz, New York Magazine

"Its success hinges on the acerbically comic, darkly spitting voice of the narrator." — Aaron Shulman, Rain Taxi

"Like Kafka on amphetamines." — Joscha Hoffman, The Believer

"The only writer of my generation who knows how to narrate the horror, the secret Vietnam that Latin America was for a long time." — Roberto Bolaño, author of 2666 and By Night in Chile

"A brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materials." — Russell Banks, author of The Reserve

"He has put El Salvador on the literary map." — Natasha Wimmer, The Nation

"Like Kafka, Moya keeps an ironic eye trained on the way in which bureaucracies become corollaries of dictatorships….His leaps from absurdity to terror and back again are like something out of The Castle." — Tommy Wallach, The World (PRI)