The National Telepathy

by Roque Larraquy · 2025

Set against the fevered backdrop of 1933 Argentina, Roque Larraquy’s *The National Telepathy* follows businessman Amado Dam as he prepares the country’s first ethnographic theme park. When the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen Amazonian natives, they bring along a bizarre artifact—a sloth that can spark wildly erotic telepathic links between people. This uncanny creature ignites a chaotic chain of desire, power plays, and absurd violence that lays bare the absurdities of a society obsessed with control. Larraquy spins a razor‑sharp satire that skewers male anxieties about women’s bodies, the pretensions of “civilized” logic, and the way class and race distort identity when wielded by the privileged. Through grotesque humor and vivid imagination, the novel exposes the hidden longings and ruthless machinations of an elite determined to stay on top, delivering a shocking, funny, and unforgettable literary high‑wire act.