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kilburnadam's review
5.0
Animalinside by Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, in collaboration with German artist Max Neumann, is a narrative exploration of a strange creature, born from a painting, that seeks to understand its place within infinity. The creature, depicted as a dog-like figure confined yet struggling for freedom, symbolizes contradictions and ambiguities reminiscent of Beckett's work. This complex yet minimalistic narrative explores the creature's raw, uncontained desire for freedom and its challenging paradoxical existence. As an open text, it resists definitive conclusions and invites readers into a realm of endless possibilities. Despite the declared extinction of language, memory, and judgment, the creatures' futile claim to kingship echoes a desperate existence. The book, published by New Directions, showcases Krasznahorkai's fascination with language as a tool for creating new myths amid modern chaos.
jasminenoack's review
4.0
this is a very well done book. It seems like a bit of a language game. It's like he's walking around the phrase the animal inside and describing what it looks like from all angles, like an artist walking around a chair and redrawing it from various angles. It even at times looks almost the same just like from some perspectives a chair will look almost the same even though you're in a completely different place. what does it mean, is it a metaphor, is it literal, is it biblical.
this was a good idea.
this was a good idea.
corpuslibris's review
4.0
The object: utterly amazing. You will caress the pages, I promise.
The text: biblical. visceral. cyclical. lyrical. terrifying. voice of god. voice of man. like gertrude stein. like samuel beckett. like the psalms. like the book of revelation. so much in so little space. it feels like a life in less than 40 pages. a full life.
The text: biblical. visceral. cyclical. lyrical. terrifying. voice of god. voice of man. like gertrude stein. like samuel beckett. like the psalms. like the book of revelation. so much in so little space. it feels like a life in less than 40 pages. a full life.
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