Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings Volume 32

by Thangam Ravindranathan

Book Overview

As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? 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. Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810140713
• ISBN13: 9780810140714
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"