Existentialist Body Horror: Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (2015)

In today's episode, Tabea Herman, Vanessa Wohlfeil, and Marcel Hartwig discuss Alexandra Kleeman's debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (2015). The novel takes us into the unnamed suburban world of A where her flatmate B is trying to become more and more like her, while she finds herself gradually withdrawing from her TV-obsessed boyfriend C. The choice of names already hints at the novel’s deep dive into postmodern prose. Today's conversation will cover Kleeman's prose style, aspects of body horror, and late capitalist consumer culture.

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Find the referenced NYT-article, "Alexandra Kleeman Finds Reality All Too Surreal" by Lauren Christensen, here