Robert Perišić Presents A Cat At the End of the World, in conversation with Will Chancellor

 
Friday
October 14th
7:00pm

 
McNally Jackson Nolita
RSVP Required — see below
 
"Robert Perišic is a light bright with intelligence and twinkling with irony, flashing us the news that postwar Croatia not only endures but matters."—Jonathan Franzen
 
"Perišić draws on mythology and history in this immersive if arcane tale . . . Classicists will find lots to love." —Publishers Weekly
 
Delivered like a fable, A Cat At the End of the World shifts perspectives between a runaway slave and the Scatterwind, a bodiless spirit that moves effortlessly through time and space, from the days of ancient Syracuse to our contemporary era. At the center of their stories is Miu, an Egyptian cat— one of the earliest to be domesticated— through whom Robert Periš ic channels a deeply profound and beautiful understanding of animal and human behaviors as seen through the results of language, warfare, colonization, trade, and the building of a society.


 

 

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Robert Perišić was born in Split, Croatia, in 1969. In 1988 he moved to Zagreb, where he studied Croatian literature and became a freelance writer, penning literary criticism, poetry, plays, and fiction. His most widely translated works are the novels Naš čovjek na terenu, (Our Man in Iraq) and Podrucje bez signala (No-Signal Area), both of which have received international critical acclaim. His 2002 collection Užas i veliki troškovi (Horror and Huge Expenses) was also published by Sandorf Passage. Perišić's time on the Adriatic Sea island of Vis, ancient Issa, inspired A Cat at the End of the World.

 

 

Will Chancellor is the author of the novel A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall. He studied political theory and environmental policy at Stanford, later finished his post-grad work in Physics and Ancient Greek. Chancellor has written for Bookforum, Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, Interview Magazine, The Rumpus, and The Scofield, among others. He currently works as an editor of the fiction column for Brooklyn Rail and is writing his second novel.

 


 

 

 

 

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