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Novel on the theme of identity, that draws on the troubled life of Rimbaud and his lover Verlaine. 265 pages.
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The doomed love affair between the poets Rimbaud and Verlaine; the rape of Airplane and her search for sexual oblivion; the child Capitol’s escape from her tortured family life into the cruel and fractured relationship with artist Harry. In these three separate narratives, Kathy Acker, drawing from both classic texts and Americana to produce a startling and inventive montage of history and literature, pornography and poetry, brilliantly explores the shifting and intangible nature of the self.
“'In Memoriam to Identity' is a wonderful riot. All the familiar Acker is here – sex shows, the living as dead, the Burroughs factor, dislocation and diatribe. Kathy Acker has put discordance to work, producing a narrative wit that seduces with style. Superbly ironic, it suggests a control that makes this her best writing.”
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“'In Memoriam to Identity' is a weird, violent, searing, angry work, full of pain, desire and hate. Kathy Acker has invented a form of secret historiography, a language of shock and sensation that provides a vivid, disruptive, unsettling readout on the psycho-social trauma of our time.”
LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Kathy Acker is a comic, foul-mouthed punk William Blake attempting a shotgun wedding of heaven and hell designed to turn contemporary literary consciousness inside out as well as upside down.”
NEW YORK TIMES
In this novel Airplane looks for a man to pull her out of the innocence of her childhood, then compromises her identity in the sex shows of Fun City and loses it completely when she falls in love with Reporter. The author's previous novels include "Blood and Guts in Highschool" and "Don Quixote".
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- PublisherPandora
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0044405685
- ISBN 13 9780044405689
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages242
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