AnimalInside (The Cahiers) - Softcover

Krasznahorkai, Laszlo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081121916X ISBN 13: 9780811219167

Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

As if some chained being had to shake its essence free, as if art taken to its limit were a form of howling, Animalinside explodes from its first line: “He wants to break free, attempts to stretch open the walls, but he has been tautened by them, and there he remains in this tautening, in this constraint, and there is nothing to do but howl. . . .”

To create this work that strains against all constraints, László Krasznahorkai began from one of Max Neumann’s paintings; Neumann, spurred into action, created 14 more images, which unleashed an additional 13 texts from the author. Animalinside is the rare case of two matchless artists meeting across disciplines, and New Directions is very proud to publish a limited edition of this powerful novella, exquisitely produced by Sylph Editions and the Cahiers Series of the American University of Paris with a deluxe seven-stage printing process for the amazing Neumann images.

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Review:

"Excellent."--Scott Esposito "Washington Post " Excellent. --Scott Esposito "Washington Post "" "There's delight in response, a collaboration of painting and fiction in Neumann and Krasznahorkai's Animalinside. Book design becomes performance as character gains dimension through reinterpretation, passed back and forth from Neumann's paintings to Krasznahorkai's stories, requiring translation into and out of text and image in a continuous extension of drama."--Sarah Gerard "BOMB Magazine " "Animalinside is a series of short texts that alternate with paintings by Max Neumann. . . . The resulting chapbook is a rolling, menacing howl that sounds like the supplication of a pet at one moment and erupts into the fury of a savage beast the next." --Jennifer Szalai "London Review of Books " "Krasznahorkai's most recent work in English is not a novel but a collaboration between the writer and the German artist Max Neumann. Animalinside is a series of fourteen exquisite and enigmatic paintings, with paragraph-length texts by Krasznahorkai . . . . The pleasure of the book flows from its extraordinary, stretched, self-recoiling sentences, which are marvels of a loosely punctuated stream of consciousness." --James Wood "New Yorker " "Animalinside "is a series of short texts that alternate with paintings by Max Neumann. . . . The resulting chapbook is a rolling, menacing howl that sounds like the supplication of a pet at one moment and erupts into the fury of a savage beast the next. --Jennifer Szalai "London Review of Books "" Krasznahorkai s most recent work in English is not a novel but a collaboration between the writer and the German artist Max Neumann. "Animalinside" is a series of fourteen exquisite and enigmatic paintings, with paragraph-length texts by Krasznahorkai . . . . The pleasure of the book flows from its extraordinary, stretched, self-recoiling sentences, which are marvels of a loosely punctuated stream of consciousness. --James Wood "New Yorker "" ""Animalinside "is a series of short texts that alternate with paintings by Max Neumann. . . . The resulting chapbook is a rolling, menacing howl that sounds like the supplication of a pet at one moment and erupts into the fury of a savage beast the next." --Jennifer Szalai "London Review of Books "

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 081121916X
• ISBN 13: 9780811219167
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 39