Modern Animal Explained

Modern Animal is a 2021 novel by Yevgenia Belorusets.^[1] Belorusets connects a series of different characters and ideas, making use of a Soviet-style lecture form. While writing the novel, Belorusets interviewed people along the Donbas region, approaching the Russian-Ukrainian conflict through stories about animals.^[2] ISOLARII co-founder Sebastian Clark described the work “as a great refutation of autofiction.”^[3] The book was published with a foreword by filmmaker Peter Greenaway.^[4] Writing for magCulture, Danielle Mustarde notes how over the course of the novel the "once-structured Modern Animal evolves into a dream-like mix of interview, folklore and fiction."^[5]

External links

Author website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jennings . Olena . The Loneliness of Animals: On Yevgenia Belorusets's "Modern Animal" . Los Angeles Review of Books . 13 March 2022 . 13 October 2021.
2. Web site: Los Angeles Review of Books. October 13, 2021. Los Angeles Review of Books.
3. Web site: Modern Animal. October 25, 2021. STACK magazines.
4. Web site: Animal Stories by Peter Greenaway. MUBI. 5 October 2021 .
5. Web site: isolarii #5. Danielle. Mustarde. October 1, 2021. magCulture.