A book against the illusion of a single answer, against the facileness that eliminates nuances and neutralizes thought.
This daring, bitter and funny book is based on an unfriendly model, perhaps the most unfriendly of all: a multiple-choice exam to access university education, specifically the one that thousands of young people, over decades, had to face to apply to Chilean universities.
"They didn't educate you, they trained you," says a character in this fierce book, made up of stories, lyrical fragments and language exercises, but also of texts that we darkly recognize as too close (brochures, advertising, pamphlets). Facsimile addresses the failure of an educational system that has perpetuated inequalities and made the experience precarious. It is a book against the illusion of a single answer, against the facileness that eliminates nuances and neutralizes thought....read more
