Animal Stories
Autor Kate Zambrenoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 sep 2025
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 recognise 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 these 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 decipher our complex ‘zoo feelings’ – what we project, and what we refuse to see. In ‘My Kafka System’, which 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.
In writing that is inquisitive and inventive, Zambreno renders visible the enclosures we construct and those we occupy ourselves.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798893380200
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 124 x 175 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Transit Books
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 124 x 175 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Transit Books
Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
Praise for Animal Stories:
'Zambreno's lucid writing and relentless inquisitiveness shine.' Publishers Weekly
'Lyrical meditations on the creative imagination and the animal in all of us...[Animal Stories] is a tour of the zoo cages of the writer’s own mind, opened for all of us to gaze on and gasp.' Kirkus Reviews
'A searching, charmingly discursive meditation...Zambreno’s reveries flit between criticism, history, and memoir—an approach well-suited to the diffuse melancholy of the zoo.' Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s
'A personal, historical, and philosophical reflection on the gap between human and animal perceptions of each other…[Animal Stories] considers the tragicomic implications of our own animal being' Brian Dillon, 4Columns
'A view on the world using a deep field of focus that renders details near and far with equal clarity. Ostensibly unrelated figures are thus united within the writer’s rich conceptual frame...Blazingly erudite...Animal Stories reflects [Zambreno’s] vital unboundedness.' The Brooklyn Rail
'Zambreno is one of our most inventive and formally daring writers…[Animal Stories] sees them at the height of their powers.' The Millions
'Zambreno, a brilliant feminist author whose insights have recontextualized generations of writings by women, visits the monkey house at a Parisian zoo. This window into simian behavior offers Zambreno some astonishing new insights into the whole of human behavior—including how we consider ourselves in relation to other animals.' The Seattle Times
Praise for Kate Zambreno:
'Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.' Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
'Zambreno's lucid writing and relentless inquisitiveness shine.' Publishers Weekly
'Lyrical meditations on the creative imagination and the animal in all of us...[Animal Stories] is a tour of the zoo cages of the writer’s own mind, opened for all of us to gaze on and gasp.' Kirkus Reviews
'A searching, charmingly discursive meditation...Zambreno’s reveries flit between criticism, history, and memoir—an approach well-suited to the diffuse melancholy of the zoo.' Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s
'A personal, historical, and philosophical reflection on the gap between human and animal perceptions of each other…[Animal Stories] considers the tragicomic implications of our own animal being' Brian Dillon, 4Columns
'A view on the world using a deep field of focus that renders details near and far with equal clarity. Ostensibly unrelated figures are thus united within the writer’s rich conceptual frame...Blazingly erudite...Animal Stories reflects [Zambreno’s] vital unboundedness.' The Brooklyn Rail
'Zambreno is one of our most inventive and formally daring writers…[Animal Stories] sees them at the height of their powers.' The Millions
'Zambreno, a brilliant feminist author whose insights have recontextualized generations of writings by women, visits the monkey house at a Parisian zoo. This window into simian behavior offers Zambreno some astonishing new insights into the whole of human behavior—including how we consider ourselves in relation to other animals.' The Seattle Times
Praise for Kate Zambreno:
'Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.' Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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A curious 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 recognise 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 these 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 decipher our complex ‘zoo feelings’ – what we project, and what we refuse to see. In ‘My Kafka System’, which 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.
In writing that is inquisitive and inventive, Zambreno renders visible the enclosures we construct and those we occupy ourselves.
A curious 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 recognise 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 these 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 decipher our complex ‘zoo feelings’ – what we project, and what we refuse to see. In ‘My Kafka System’, which 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.
In writing that is inquisitive and inventive, Zambreno renders visible the enclosures we construct and those we occupy ourselves.