Animal of Oblivion is a poetic travel diary through the streets of Paris. But the Paris of the book is not just a landscape, but a space of consciousness where the gaze sharpens and struggles to discover the world that does not want to be seen.

By narrowing and widening the lens, the speaker's consciousness is revealed, as she sketches the city in her wanderings through bus stops, through theatrical fragments, cinematic scenes, a robbery in the metro, and aphorisms by Rene Char.

This is a personal and political journey – in language, gender, class – written from the margins, from a relentless wandering in a metropolis without contours.

Ayelet Lilti seeks – in sharp and sensitive writing that does not succumb to any genre – to understand what binds us to a place where we are strangers.