Thalia Field was born in Chicago in 1966 After attending lyc e in France she graduated with honors from Brown University She has three books of experimental writing prose poetry published with New Directions Point and Line 2000 Incarnate Story Material 2004 and Bird Lovers Backyard 2009 A novel ULULU Clown Shrapnel was published by Coffee House Press in 2008 Fields writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Chicago Review Ploughshares Fence Theater Central Park Chain and Conjunctions where she served as editor from 1995 1999 Before joining the faculty at Brown University where she currently teaches experimental fiction and performance Field taught at Bard College and at the Writing and Thalia Field was born in Chicago in 1966 After attending lyc e in France she graduated with honors from Brown University She has three books of experimental writing prose poetry published with New Directions Point and Line 2000 Incarnate Story Material 2004 and Bird Lovers Backyard 2009 A novel ULULU Clown Shrapnel was published by Coffee House Press in 2008 Field s writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Chicago Review Ploughshares Fence Theater Central Park Chain and Conjunctions where she served as editor from 1995 1999 Before joining the faculty at Brown University where she currently teaches experimental fiction and performance Field taught at Bard College and at the Writing and Poetics program at Naropa University site_link
Despu s de escribir un par de obras de teatro sin mucho recorrido el joven Claude Bernard se convence de abandonar su vocaci n literaria y emprender los estudios de Medicina Para cuando Luis Napole n se proclama emperador y env a a Victor Hugo al destierro por llamarle traidor Bernard empieza a ser reconocido como padre de la Fisiolog a moderna gracias a sus ensayos con perros conejos y otros animales El m dico logra financiar sus costosos experimentos que acabar n siendo un espect culo social con la dote de su mujer Marie Fran oise m s conocida como Fanny Fanny sin embargo considera que la medicina debe servir para proporcionar alivio y no dolor y junto a sus hijas desaf a p blicamente a su marido prende la mecha social y pone en marcha una red de albergues para animales A ojos de la mayor a se convierte en una esposa abusiva una mujer necia y una fan tica que se niega al progreso para unos pocos en cambio ser la activista que abri nuevos caminos en la defensa de los animales Thalia Field novela la historia real de los or genes de la vivisecci n sin renunciar a toda su los importantes logros para la medicina y la oposici n del movimiento social fundamentalmente femenino que se alaba su brutalidad Para ello combina con habilidad y ritmo narrativo distintos materiales en los que conviven realidad y ficci cartas y diarios de los protagonistas recortes de peri dico y textos de autores como los hermanos Goncourt Luis Pasteur Victor Hugo o Gustave Flaubert aunque quien m s protagonismo cobra es mile Zola que consideraba a Bernard un m rtir de la vida conyugal y cuyos textos sobre la experimentaci n en la novela se preguntaban ya si la literatura puede aspirar a ser un conocimiento m s verdadero que la propia ciencia Conejillos de Indias Spanish Edition.