Behold an Animal
Behold an Animal As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is simply--literally or…
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Behold an Animal
As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is simply--literally or metaphorically--an animal, Thangam Ravindranathan understands it rather as the location of something missing. Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings examines incongruous animals in the works of four major contemporary French writers: an airborne horse in a novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, extinct orangutans in ric Chevillard, stray dogs in Marie NDiaye, vanishing (bits of) hedgehogs in Marie Darrieussecq.
Its flight traces an exorbitant (self-)portrait in which thinking admits to its commerce with life and flesh. The animal is a lure: an unfinished figure fleeing the frame, crossing bounds of period, genre, even medium and language. It is in its animals, at the same time unbearably real and exquisitely
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