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A letter surprises Lucrecia. Between angry phrases against work and the myth of progress, Vita, her recently deceased aunt, encrypted the map of a treasure buried in the middle of La Pampa. Little by little, that voice and the succession of crazy events that it unleashes upset their mundane customs and her iron work discipline. Ironic and corrosive, without losing his sense of humor for an instant, Cristoff reveals the vital extractivism that underlies so many contemporary practices. From the mail to the autobiography, from the travel chronicle to the portrait and the telegram, from the theater to the anarchist songbook, the novel is assembled in a superposition of characters, formats and genres in the manner of numbers at fairs or traveling circuses. Preciously written, Splurge is a brilliant social satire that pays homage to the picaresque and calls for a party for the insurgents.