Lifeform: from the bestselling author of Little Weirds
Autor Jenny Slateen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 2025
Recomandăm Lifeform cititorilor pasionați de eseistică contemporană, viitorilor părinți care caută o perspectivă onestă asupra transformării personale și celor care apreciază proza scurtă cu valențe experimentale. Apreciem modul în care Jenny Slate reușește să transforme experiența maternității într-un teritoriu narativ sălbatic și profund uman, depășind clișeele literaturii de gen. Volumul este structurat riguros în cinci etape existențiale — de la singurătate și regăsirea iubirii, până la șocul nașterii în timpul unei pandemii globale și adaptarea continuă la noua realitate. Subliniem versatilitatea stilistică a autoarei; Lifeform nu este un jurnal clasic, ci un mozaic de forme hibride ce includ scrisori imaginare către medici, dialoguri între animale și scenarii de teatru arhaic. Remarcăm cum această lucrare continuă explorările imaginative din Little Weirds, dar aduce o notă de maturitate și o ancorare viscerală în realitatea biologică, spre deosebire de tonul pur ludic din Marcel the Shell with Shoes on. Comparabil cu Look Alive Out There de Sloane Crosley în ceea ce privește precizia observației sociale și umorul autoironic, Lifeform se distinge prin refuzul normativității și prin curajul de a expune frica și extazul într-un limbaj poetic, aproape suprarealist. Este o explorare a ceea ce înseamnă să fii un „mamifer uman” care încearcă să își păstreze identitatea în timp ce viața sa este radical reconfigurată.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0349127506
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Fleet
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Pentru cititorul care caută mai mult decât un ghid despre parenting, această carte oferă o perspectivă literară asupra metamorfozei interioare. Câștigați acces la un univers creativ unic unde umorul se împletește cu vulnerabilitatea extremă. Este lectura ideală pentru cei care au apreciat spiritul ludic al lui Jenny Slate în lucrările anterioare, dar sunt pregătiți pentru o incursiune mai profundă și mai onestă în complexitatea condiției umane contemporane.
Recenzii
Though Slate's eccentric comedy is a constant, she's not afraid to get heartfelt . . . funny, lyrical, and sometimes strange, these essays pulse with life
Writer and actress Slate's second collection of imaginative, funny, affecting, and hard-to-classify pieces delves deeply into her feelings, dreams, and visions about pregnancy and becoming a mother. . . . Some extra-out-there pieces cement this as another wonderfully weird, incomparable, and utterly enjoyable book that readers will be glad simply exists
Lifeform is an artifact in which Jenny Slate looks at herself as 'Jenny Slate,' a private person and a public avatar of millennial motherhood
Jenny Slate, known for her crackling standup and for voicing Marcel the Shell, here turns her high-wattage attention to the messiness of falling in love, giving birth during a pandemic and adjusting to the "situation" of motherhood-all of it delivered in her singular, zigzagging voice
This quirky, totally original book may be a memoir if one is to believe that a human brain can totally live inside a planet of its own making
Fans old and new will revel in Lifeform's self-effacing humor and imaginative writing style. It's a delightful, memorable immersion in the lifeform that is Jenny Slate
Imaginative, funny, affecting, and hard-to-classify . . . A wonderfully weird, incomparable, and utterly enjoyable book that readers will be glad simply exists
At times whimsical in its flights of fancy and always surprising in the moments of lyrical grace it offers, Slate's book celebrates the transformative power of surrendering to love and life. Delightfully offbeat and unexpectedly moving
A wild, soulful, hilarious chronicle of becoming a mother as you've never seen before, from the bestselling author, actor, comedian and co-creator of Marcel the Shell
What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find a person to love who would love her, and there was a deep dark loneliness she had to face and befriend, and then she did fall in love, and she was like chimes then, or a flock of clean breaths, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love.
And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing, and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague, and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal - but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal?
Herein lies an account of this journey, told in the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary old-timey play, theories about post-partum hair loss, and more. No one writes like Jenny Slate.
'A singular, zigzagging voice' New York Times
'Absurdist humor, magical realism, fanciful self-reflection . . . Jenny Slate is inviting you to the dreamscape of her mind' Washington Post
'A quirky, totally original book' San Francisco Book Review
Descriere
Praise for Jenny Slate and Little Weirds
'Magical' Mindy Kaling
'Delicious' Amy Sedaris
'This book is something new and wonderful. It made me remember I was alive' George Saunders
From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you've never seen it before.
What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal-but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal?
Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases-Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing-through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more.
No one writes like Jenny Slate.