Photo of Alejandro Zambra (right) by the Instituto Cervantes de Tokio, via Wikimedia Commons.
Zambra’s interactive hybrid text, attentively translated by Megan McDowell, parodies the form of the Chilean Academic Aptitude Test — specifically from 1993, the year he took the test — which students would take to apply to Chilean universities.
In Multiple Choice, Alejandro Zambra asks us to remember a lot of things:
A) A lost love
B) A dead friend
C) A sixty-five-year-old woman who lost a breast to cancer, and never forgot she was missing a breast
D) A curfew imposed in Santiago, Chile, under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship
