This is a profound look at the violence and beauty of life. With exquisite prose and sharp observations, Martin reveals how curiosity can uncover the most vivid aspects of the human condition. Just how precious or sacred are you, really, if a bear can suddenly rip off part of your head? The result is heady and obsessive, as Martin smashes again and again against the limits of what anyone can know: What is a self? What is ‘the other’?. hunts for beauty in what remains occluded and apart. Martin’s narrative, with the bones of a personal essay and the lift of a prose poem.
Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review What Martin describes in this book isn’t so much a search for meaning as an acceptance of its undoing.
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. In the Eye of the Wild is Martin’s haunting, genre-defying memoir of the year that followed, though in Sophie R. I have work to do, but still I can’t put down Nastassja Martin’s In the Eye of the Wild Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being. 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. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. In the course of that encounter something in the balance of her world shifts. 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.
#INTO THE WILD BOOK SYNOPSIS PROFESSIONAL#
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.
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.
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