“An original, insubordinate novel, like [Cardenas's] grammar, like his syntax, but fabulously, compellingly readable.”
—The New York Times Sunday Book Review
“Cardenas’s gift is to show, through long, brilliant sentences, the charm of inaction and delinquency.”
—The New Yorker
“A novel that redefines the Latin American identity in a world characterized by social technology and ever-blurring ethnic boundaries.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Exuberant, cacophonous.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“This is double-black-diamond high modernism, so do some warm-up stretches before you crack this baby.”
—Shelf Awareness
“Both ambitious and irreverent, its language as suffused with childhood jest as with profound, urgent questions of purpose.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“A high-octane, high-modernist debut novel from the gifted, fleet Mauro Javier Cardenas.”
—Harper’s
“The Revolutionaries Try Again could be spun as the The Recognitions of our age, with Otto reborn as Antonio. In any case, it’s revolutionary.”
—Culture Trip
“Experimental, funny, many tongued.”
—Brooklyn Magazine
“A remarkable achievement; Cardenas’ expansive voice and vision are too brilliant to let pass you by.”
—BuzzFeed
“[Cardenas is] a tremendously skilled storyteller and monologuist; his writing is so exuberant.”
—Paul Yamazaki
“It’s been ten years since a book this alive, this incandescent, has fallen into my hands.”
—Carmen Boullosa
