Animal Stories (Undelivered Lectures) (Signed First Edition)
Zambreno, Kate
ISBN 13: 9798893380200
Published by Transit Books, 2025
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Transit, 2025. First edition. First printing. Trade paperback original. Very Fine A pristine unread copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Smoke-free. Shipped in a well padded box. Seller Inventory # Signed-Trade-Paperback-Original-3
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From a writer who has “invented a new form” (Annie Ernaux), an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals.
Animal Stories begins with Kate Zambreno’s visit to the monkey house at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where one stark tree “seems to be the stage design for a simian production of Waiting for Godot.” But who are the players and who is the audience, and can they recognize each other?
What follows is a series of reports from the deep strangeness of the zoo, a space that is “more often than not deeply sad, an odd choice for regular pilgrimages of fun.” Amid excursions with their young children, Zambreno turns to Garry Winogrand’s photographs and John Berger’s writings on animals, reshaping the spectator as the subject to decode our complex “zoo feelings”—what we project, and what we refuse to see. Then, in the “Kafka system” that dovetails with these zoo studies, Zambreno thinks through the notebooks and animal stories of a writer known for playing at the threshold between species, continuing their investigation into the false divide between human and animal.
Drawing on forms including reports, essays, journals, and stories, Zambreno renders visible the enclosures we construct and the ones we occupy ourselves.
About the Author: Kate Zambreno is the author most recently of Drifts; To Write As if Already Dead, a study of Hervé Guibert; The Light Room; and a collaborative study on tone in literature with Sofia Samatar. They live in Brooklyn with their two children and their partner, John Vincler. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, they are a PhD candidate in performance studies at NYU.
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Title: Animal Stories (Undelivered Lectures) (...
Publisher: Transit Books
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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