{"product_id":"oposicion-sara-mesa","title":"Opposition, Sara Mesa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe narrator of this novel studies to consolidate her professional future. She has secured an interim position in an administrative office, and facing a civil service examination seems to be the logical next step in her career. However, another type of opposition, an internal one, based on her observation of daily bureaucratic life, makes her far from certain. The building where she has been assigned, as gigantic as it is hermetic, is a place of incomprehensible hierarchies, which expels her even as it absorbs her. Since no one explains her duties to her, she is forced to improvise, dissimulate out of shame, and record her discomfort with drawings and poems as disconnected from reality as the job itself. The civil servants around her, each with their own peculiarities and conflicts, have developed the tics and eccentricities typical of work routines and uncritical obedience. Needing a useful life, a true pulse, and play, the civil service examinee will make small subversive decisions without anticipating their possible disciplinary consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a curious, avid, and increasingly disillusioned gaze, *Oposición* describes the traps of bureaucratic mechanisms not only for those who suffer them, but also for those who put them into operation. The incisive Sara Mesa, who knew the world of administration from the inside, addresses the story of contemporary bureaucracy from the perspective of someone trapped in the dead time of useless tasks, treating the problem of boredom and apathy in a brilliant, biting, and relentlessly paced narrative. Her protagonist, like a haphazard and involuntary heroine, confronts the worst and most unsettling of absurdities: how we organize ourselves in society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sur Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44150011920435,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4281\/5539\/files\/16.png?v=1774525834","url":"https:\/\/www.surbooks.com.au\/en\/products\/oposicion-sara-mesa","provider":"Sur Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}