Hombres y mujeres completamente normales avanzan a diario hacia su escritorio en una ciudad arrasada por atentados guerrilleros, amenazada por hordas de hambrientos, niños asesinos y perros clonados, vigilada por helicópteros artillados y bautizada con lluvia ácida. Entre ellos, un oficinista dispuesto a la humillación con tal de conservar su puesto… hasta que se enamora y se permite soñar con ser otro. ¿De qué abyecciones es capaz un hombre por aferrarse a un sueño?

The novel The Office Worker was awarded the Brief Library Award for 2010 and it is not difficult to see the reasons behind that choice. The short length of the story and the urgency it communicates makes it a quick and rewarding. The novel successfully conveys a sense of oppression and claustrophobia through the persistent description of a reality that many have taken to compare with that exhibited in the film Blade Runner, although perhaps this is much less technological but equally perverse and atrocious. Although influences may occasionally seem too explicit and insistent, Guillermo Saccomanno's diligence in the narrative manages to trap the reader in a spiral of moral and personal decadence. ( )

This is one of the most despairing novels I have read in a long time. Set somewhere in Argentina in a time when cloned dogs run in packs in the city, the clerk, in whose mind the reader dwells, wrestles with his subterranean psyche. Can love save him? Will it destroy him? Will his dark "Other" win the psychic battle at the cost of his humanity? Um...yes....it is a dark, dark read. The existential angst in this novel makes "La Nausee" feel lighthearted. And yet.....I could not put it down. The writing is phenomenal and evocative. I wrestled with the feelings evoked by the ambiance, the constant threat of violence on a state level, in the workplace, and randomly as an innocent bystander on the street. On some level, that is life in the United States as well, and it hurts to look that threat in the face and try to imagine the impact on the psyche of all of us. It begs the question of what it takes to turn any person into their Other? Definitely not for the faint of heart. ( )

Un oficinista dispuesto a la humillación con tal de conservar su puesto..... hasta que se enamora y se permite soñar con ser otro. ( )

El oficinista vive una vida infeliz y rutinaria. Tiene una família que desprecia, una mujer que le pega y unos hijos que odia excepto uno que le recuerda a él, debil.
Trabaja en una ciudad del futuro, con mucha violencia en las calles. En la oficina se enamora de la secretaria que hace que el reaccione, se rebele contra su vida. ( )