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JeanBaptiste Del Amo

Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, translated by Frank Wynne

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August 2019, no. 413

If you’re squeamish, this book probably isn’t for you. Each page delivers shocking or mundane violence and descriptions of guts and gore so frank they become a kind of poetry. There is clear relish in Del Amo’s depictions, and there is nothing gratuitous about them; he brings us rivetingly close to each fold of decrepit skin, the agonies of labour ...

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