{"product_id":"9798893380200-animal-stories","title":"Animal Stories","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnimal Stories \u003c\/i\u003ebegins 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 \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e.” But who are the players and who is the audience, and can they recognize each other?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on forms including reports, essays, journals, and stories, Zambreno renders visible the enclosures we construct and the ones we occupy ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56276621263222,"sku":"9798893380200","price":13.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35836313.jpg?v=1757937822","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9798893380200-animal-stories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}