Bakis, Kirsten
Entry updated 15 April 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1967- ) Swiss-born US author (of Estonian parentage) whose first novel, Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997), comes close to Beast Fable in its complex accounting of the fate of a nineteenth-century experiment, rather similar to that dissected in H G Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), in the surgical modification of Dogs into creatures resembling humans. The dogs' enforced removal to an effective prison environment in Canada, and their eventual escape to New York, where they die, is effectively though congestedly told. In the end, the novel is a tale of exile.
Bakis's second novel, King Nyx (2024), examines the life of Anna Filing Fort, here and in reality the wife of Charles Fort, generating a vision of lives intertwined along the lines of "anomaly" famously espoused in her husband's speculative studies. [JC]
Kirsten Bakis
born Switzerland: 1 January 1967
works
- Lives of the Monster Dogs (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1997) [hb/Debra Lill]
- King Nyx (New York: Liveright, 2024) [hb/]
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