Memories from the Jungle

Auteur

Tristan Garcia is a rising star of the French intellectual and literary world, having published several books of philosophy—including the influential Form and Object—as well as eight works of fiction. His first novel won the Prix Flore and was translated into English as Hate: A Romance. Garcia is on the philosophy faculty at the Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3. Christopher Beach is the co-translator of Annie Ernaux’s Do What They Say or Else (Nebraska, 2022). He is an independent scholar, editor, and translator.

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In French author Tristan Garcia’s Memories from the Jungle chimpanzee Doogie is marooned in the jungle after being raised by human beings. With his exceptional intelligence, Doogie must confront not only the dangers of the natural world but also his place in human and nonhuman society.