Abrupt Mutations leads the reader on a humorous, meandering tour of
1960s Megalopolis, at the heart of which is a hotly anticipated
gathering of the city's culturati at the home of O Jango, a Brazilian
billionaire and aesthete equally revered and reviled by his fellow
Megalopolitans. Parodying a number of literary styles, including the
detective novel and science fiction, Revol's novel is first and foremost
a Menippean satire of the cosmopolitan west in the sixties, detailing
hilariously but humanely the lives of intellectual and artistic émigré's
who have fled from dictatorships and found in their adopted city
opportunities for personal freedom and pleasure they previously could
never have dreamed of.