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Aliens & Anorexia, new edition by Chris Kraus

Aliens & Anorexia, new edition

By Chris Kraus
Foreword by Palle Yourgrau

By Chris Kraus
Foreword by Palle Yourgrau

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Part of Semiotext(e) / Native Agents

Category: Women's Fiction

Paperback $16.95

Aug 16, 2013 | ISBN 9781584351269

Aliens & Anorexia, new edition by Chris Kraus
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Aug 16, 2013 | ISBN 9781584351269

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About Aliens & Anorexia, new edition

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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Product Details

Category: Women’s Fiction

Paperback | $16.95
Published by Semiotext(e)
Aug 16, 2013 | 264 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781584351269

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