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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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THE ZOO
An Empty Mind is a Clear Mind.
A Master Animal is an Ignorant Animal.
A Master Animal is an Ignorant Animal.
Wise Old Owl has unearthed just what it is that has been causing strife since societies began. It is the Artists and the Thinkers who are responsible. They are the greatest enemy to animal-kind because they make animals think about what life could be rather than what it is. The only way to save Animal World is to zoo-in'
those animals that dream, create and just generally confuse the masses. However, a small rabble of the intelligentsia attempt to resist the insidious policing of Muerte Buzzard and Sly Fox on those animals which have an inner life' and they send turncoat Michael Ferret to seek out the lost and long-forgotten prodigy
Polly Parrot. She is the only one who can argue successfully against Owl's charismatic totalitarianism. But Polly has been searching for the secret to life and who knows what she's found
An endlessly inventive satire about the modern growth of totalitarianism, Richard Kalich masterfully uncovers the minutiae of the propaganda machine and the descent from aggressive rhetoric into systematised state killing-machines. The Zoo is a bleak political allegory about the struggle of the artist to create beauty when confronted with crushing oppression. Kalich's novel is all the more terrifying because it is still so readily applicable to both the past and the future.
Richard Kalich was born, grew up and lives in New York, on the Upper West side. In 1987, he published his first novel, The Nihilesthete, which won him international acclaim. He went on to write some of the most
original American fiction in a generation. Kalich has been compared to Kafka, Beckett, Bataille, Camus, Auster,
and Gombrowicz. He has been nominated for the National Book Award, twice for a Pulitzer, and his works have been translated into several languages.
those animals that dream, create and just generally confuse the masses. However, a small rabble of the intelligentsia attempt to resist the insidious policing of Muerte Buzzard and Sly Fox on those animals which have an inner life' and they send turncoat Michael Ferret to seek out the lost and long-forgotten prodigy
Polly Parrot. She is the only one who can argue successfully against Owl's charismatic totalitarianism. But Polly has been searching for the secret to life and who knows what she's found
An endlessly inventive satire about the modern growth of totalitarianism, Richard Kalich masterfully uncovers the minutiae of the propaganda machine and the descent from aggressive rhetoric into systematised state killing-machines. The Zoo is a bleak political allegory about the struggle of the artist to create beauty when confronted with crushing oppression. Kalich's novel is all the more terrifying because it is still so readily applicable to both the past and the future.
Richard Kalich was born, grew up and lives in New York, on the Upper West side. In 1987, he published his first novel, The Nihilesthete, which won him international acclaim. He went on to write some of the most
original American fiction in a generation. Kalich has been compared to Kafka, Beckett, Bataille, Camus, Auster,
and Gombrowicz. He has been nominated for the National Book Award, twice for a Pulitzer, and his works have been translated into several languages.