Cover of Chris Kraus: Aliens & Anorexia

Chris Kraus Aliens & Anorexia

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English

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Book information

Profile Books Ltd

UK

2018

Main

Paperback

272

Standard

294025

978-1-78816-007-0

1-78816-007-X

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Annotation

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.

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