Hackenfeller's Ape, (Paperback)

<p><strong>A "pointed and amusing satire"&amp;#8239;(<em>TIME</em>)&amp;#8239;of animal rights from a trailblazing twentieth-century writer and activist.</strong></p><br><p>At the London Zoo, Professor Clement Derrylhyde has been studying Percy and Edwina, a pair of Hackenfeller's Apes, for some time: serenading them with Mozart, learning their habits, hoping to witness the mating of this endangered species. Percy observes him back through the bars of his enclosure, wary of a species that is both captor and companion. When the Professor learns that the zoo has sold Percy to a government space program and that the ape is due to be launched on a one-way rocket trip in a matter of days, he teams up with a plucky young lockpick named Gloria in the hopes of securing Percy's freedom.</p><br><p>In a prescient, provocative novella written almost a decade before the first animal was sent into outer space, Brigid Brophy meditates on the human tendency towards violence and self-alienation. At once fable and comedy, gallivanting heist adventure and elegant philosophical treatise,&amp;#8239;<em>Hackenfeller's Ape</em>&amp;#8239;reveals the human animal inside of us all.</p>

• Hackenfeller's Ape, (Paperback)
• Author: Dalkey Archive Press
• ISBN: 9781628976731
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-10-13
• Page Count: 150