Alexandra
Meckl
Read write
Pigeons and tofu
Short prose collection
Animalul Omega
About the book
Animalul Omega patiently unravels the tangled knot of human indifference. From snapshots of dystopias haunted by ever more violent faces of meat consumption, to family portraits woven with red threads that run through their normality to expose the cruelty behind its supposedly banal or harmless details — the mozzarella on a pizza, the soap, the brightly coloured jellies in children’s pockets — the stories in this volume dissolve the distance forcibly installed between lives that count and lives that are ended “under the precision of machines and human wills”. The result provokes exactly the discomfort feared by the guardians of hierarchies, and shows how arbitrary and easily defamiliarised our convictions can be, both about non-human beings and about ourselves. Alexandra Meckl’s book does not forget the fragile harmony still present in the world, unmasking the capricious boot of a humanity that threatens it and that, in its ignorance, overshadows the possibility of a gentler future.
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