The Cahiers Series is published in association with The Center for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris. The goal of this series is to make available new explorations in writing, in translating, and in the areas linking these two activities.

Cahier 14
Animalinside
László Krasznahorkai & Max Neumann
This cahier is the result of a collaboration undertaken specially for The Cahiers Series, between a writer and a painter. Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, author of The Melancholy of Resistance and War & War, responds with fourteen texts to fourteen depictions of a strange and ill-formed creature made by his friend the renowned German painter Max Neumann. The texts speak from within the head of Neumann’s creature that seems to be menacing existence itself; serving, as they do so, to confirm Susan Sontag’s estimate of Krasznahorkai as ‘The Hungarian Master of Apocalypse’. All fourteen of Neumann’s paintings are reproduced alongside the texts (translated by Ottilie Mulzet). The cahier is introduced with a preface by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín.