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A utopian experimental novel that tells the story of the birth, life, and death of a collective consciousness called the Animal.'What I mean to say is that madness is a right.' So begins
Animal Spiral, a utopian experimental novel that tells the story of the birth, life, and death of a collective consciousness called the Animal.The book narrates a tale about a world that is both desirable and terrifying over the next 377 years. It starts in the middle. In the Caribbean. It slowly follows the strict form of a narrative spiral through cycles of destruction. Then it moves back to our present so we can see our world becoming the other one. Its protagonist is a collective consciousness, the Animal. It is born. It grows and learns. It dies. It is mourned by cybernetic goddesses. It also screams: Loneliness is a collective disease! We defend our right to madness! Brave are not the ones who resist; brave are the ones who let go!
About the author
Luis Othoniel Rosa (Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1985) studied at the University of Puerto Rico and received a PhD from Princeton University. He is the author of the novels
Otra vez me alejo (Argentina: Entropía, 2012; Puerto Rico: Isla Negra, 2013) and
Caja de fractales (Argentina: Entropía, 2017; Puerto Rico: La Secta de los Perros, 2018). The latter was creatively translated into English as
Down with Gargamel! (USA: Argos Books, 2020). He is also the author of
Calima, a wild bilingual fiction (Spanish-English) in collaboration with various artists and translators (Puerto Rico: La Impresora, 2023) and of the academic book,
Comienzos para una estética anarquista: Borges con Macedonio (Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2016; Argentina: Corregidor, 2020). He is the founding editor of www.ElRoommate.com.
Katie Marya is the author of
Sugar Work, the Editor's Choice for 2020 Alice James Book Award. Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and translations have appeared in literary magazines such as
AGNI,
North American Review,
Waxwing,
Salamander,
Fence, and on the national poetry podcast
The Slowdown Show . She lives in Nebraska and teaches writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
