Animal Stories by Zambreno, Kate
Animal Stories by Zambreno, Kate

Animal Stories

From a writer who has "invented a new form" (Annie Ernaux), an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom,...
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Author: Kate Zambreno
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Animal Stories by Zambreno, Kate

Animal Stories

$27.51
Animal Stories by Zambreno, Kate

Animal Stories

$27.51
Author: Kate Zambreno
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
From 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.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 recognize 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 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.Drawing on forms including reports, essays, journals, and stories, Zambreno renders visible the enclosures we construct and the ones we occupy ourselves.

Author: Kate Zambreno
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.85h x 4.96w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9798893380200


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/28/2025
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2025

About the Author
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.


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