Description: Pages clean and unmarked. The lightest shelf/edge wear and light scrape on the cover from handling. The lightest crease of the spine. Images on listing, are of this book. PAPERBACK _____________A novel about failure, empathy, and sadness, with a cast of characters that includes Simone Weil, Paul Thek, and the author herself.First published in 2000, Chris Kraus's second novel, Aliens & Anorexia, defined a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. Unfolding like a set of Chinese boxes, with storytelling and philosophy informing each other, the novel weaves together 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 in Namibia 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, and reclaims 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 that this 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 a gift, if, in the end, like all good deeds, it remains—as Weil herself would be the first to insist—a fool's errand.”
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Book Title: Aliens & Anorexia by Chris Kraus & Palle Yourgrau Paperback VG
Book Series: Aliens & Anorexia by Chris Kraus & Palle Yourgrau Paperback VG
Original Language: English
Item Length: 9.1 in
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8 in
Personalized: No
Features: Abridged
Topic: Supernatural, Contemporary Women, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
Item Width: 6 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Semiotexte The Limited
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: Collector's Edition
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Novel
Literary Movement: Enlightenment, Modernism
Era: 2020s
Author: Chris Kraus
Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Parenting & Relations, Health, Treatments & Medicine, Paranormal, Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Number of Pages: 264 Pages