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In the Eye of the Wild
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9781681375854
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681375850
ISBN-13
9781681375854
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11050084374
Product Key Features
Book Title
In the Eye of the Wild
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Bears, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Nature, Social Science, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-012498
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Stunning. . . With exquisite prose and sharp observations, Martin reveals how curiosity can uncover the most vivid aspects of the human condition. This is a profound look at the violence and beauty of life." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Martin returns obsessively to her violent encounter, struggling to make sense of it. In the Eye of the Wild is a thrilling story of survival, reminiscent of Artaud and Michaux, poised at the brink of the abyss." -- Le Monde des Livres "A staggering book of metamorphoses, a hybrid of anthropology and literature, In the Eye of the Wild is both the record of an interior journey and an invitation to the reader to see the world in another way altogether." -- L'Humanité "A gripping, thoughtful look at nature, and what happens when it turns hostile." --InsideHook, "Stunning. . . With exquisite prose and sharp observations, Martin reveals how curiosity can uncover the most vivid aspects of the human condition. This is a profound look at the violence and beauty of life." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review, " In the Eye of the Wild is Martin's haunting, genre-defying memoir of the year that followed [her attack], though in Sophie R. Lewis's elegant translation from the French, it becomes clear that 'memoir' is another word that doesn't quite fit this slender yet expansive book. . . What Martin describes in this book isn't so much a search for meaning as an acceptance of its undoing." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review "Stunning. . . With exquisite prose and sharp observations, Martin reveals how curiosity can uncover the most vivid aspects of the human condition. This is a profound look at the violence and beauty of life." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Martin returns obsessively to her violent encounter, struggling to make sense of it. In the Eye of the Wild is a thrilling story of survival, reminiscent of Artaud and Michaux, poised at the brink of the abyss." -- Le Monde des Livres "A staggering book of metamorphoses, a hybrid of anthropology and literature, In the Eye of the Wild is both the record of an interior journey and an invitation to the reader to see the world in another way altogether." -- L'Humanité "A gripping, thoughtful look at nature, and what happens when it turns hostile." --InsideHook, "Stunning. . . With exquisite prose and sharp observations, Martin reveals how curiosity can uncover the most vivid aspects of the human condition. This is a profound look at the violence and beauty of life." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Martin returns obsessively to her violent encounter, struggling to make sense of it. In the Eye of the Wild is a thrilling story of survival, reminiscent of Artaud and Michaux, poised at the brink of the abyss." -- Le Monde des Livres "A staggering book of metamorphoses, a hybrid of anthropology and literature, In the Eye of the Wild is both the record of an interior journey and an invitation to the reader to see the world in another way altogether." -- L'Humanité
Dewey Decimal
599.78409577
Synopsis
After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human. In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin's near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin's professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken-the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. In the course of that encounter something in the balance of her world shifts. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka , a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker's classic The Peregrine . Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being., After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human. In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin's near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin's professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken--the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. In the course of that encounter something in the balance of her world shifts. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka , a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker's classic The Peregrine . Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.
LC Classification Number
QL737.C27M352113
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