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Aliens & Anorexia - 9781584351269
Un libro in lingua di Chris Kraus Yourgrau Palle (INT) edito da Semiotext, 2013
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First published in 2000, Chris Kraus's second novel, Aliens &Anorexia, defined a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. Unfoldinglike a set of Chinese boxes, with storytelling and philosophy informing each other, the novel weavestogether the lives of earnest visionaries and failed artists. Its characters include Simone Weil,the first radical philosopher of sadness; the artist Paul Thek; Kraus herself; and"Africa," Kraus's virtual S&M partner, who is shooting a big-budget Hollywood film inNamibia while Kraus holes up in the Northwest woods to chronicle the failure of Gravity& Grace, her own low-budget independent film.
In Aliens& Anorexia, Kraus makes a case for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, andreclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor "self-esteem." Anorexia,Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a rejection of the cynicism thatthis culture hands us through its food. As Palle Yourgrau writes in the book's new foreword,"Kraus's rescue operation for aliens like Weil from behind enemy lines on planet Earth is agift, if, in the end, like all good deeds, it remains -- as Weil herself would be the first toinsist -- a fool's errand."
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Aliens & Anorexia
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Chris Kraus Yourgrau Palle (INT)
- Editore: Semiotext
- Collana: Semiotext (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 16 Agosto '13
- Genere: FICTION
- Pagine: 261
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 0
- ISBN-10: 1584351268
- EAN-13: 9781584351269