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It's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film Gravity & Grace, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction' and 'an amateur intellectual's home video expanded to bulimic lengths' ...
It's 1942 in Marseille, and Simone Weil is waiting for the US entry visa that will save her from the Holocaust, while writing work described alternately as a 'radical philosophy of sadness' and 'immoral, trite, irrelevant and paradoxical' ...
It's the late 90s, the millennium is approaching, and Chris Kraus is in Los Angeles, not eating, waiting for her s/m partner to reply to her emails ...
It's 1943, and Simone Weil is in London, completing her project of transcendence by dying of starvation ...
Filled with Chris Kraus' trademark wit and frankness, unfolding to reveal the lives of ecstatic visionaries and failed artists, Aliens & Anorexia is an audacious novel about failure, empathy and sadness.
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Chris Kraus' work is not just great but indispensable ... I read everything she writes (Rachel Kushner)
Kraus' books are all committed to the live wire of feeling, refusing the divide between authenticity and artifice (New Yorker)
One of our smartest and most original writers (The New York Times)
Devastatingly relevant ... a manifesto for failing as an artist ... full of Kraus's characteristic deep empathy, vulnerability and wit (The Skinny)
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Kraus' books are all committed to the live wire of feeling, refusing the divide between authenticity and artifice (New Yorker)
One of our smartest and most original writers (The New York Times)
Devastatingly relevant ... a manifesto for failing as an artist ... full of Kraus's characteristic deep empathy, vulnerability and wit (The Skinny)
The searing sequel to Chris Kraus's bestselling cult classic I Love Dick
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- PublisherTuskar Rock
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 178816007X
- ISBN 13 9781788160070
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. First published in 2000, 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.' The searing sequel to Chris Kraus's bestselling cult classic I Love Dick. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781788160070
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