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When Chris Kraus, a 39 year old experimental filmmaker, falls in love with Dick __, a cultural critic, she writes him 200 letters. But because she is married and embarrassed and afraid to lose her husband, she invites him to collaborate. And her husband, the theorist and critic Sylvere Lotringer, complies. Strategically confessional, I Love Dick is a real-life chronicle of Kraus' desperate attempt to get adolescent romance right for the first time.
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--BookforumChris Kraus is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Summer of Hate as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs, all published by Semiotext(e). A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles. Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation.
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- PublisherMIT Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1570270465
- ISBN 13 9781570270468
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages282
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 282 pages. Oh Dick, I want to be an intellectual like you. I n I LOVE DICK, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, opened up an entirely new era in the history of writing by boldly tearing away the veil that s eparates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expressions. No wonder it instantly elicited violent controversies and also a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 19 94 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him wi th the help of her husband. But when the theorist (a colleague of her husband) refuses to answer her letters, the husband and wife begin to write a series of letters to one another instead -- det ailing the imaginary fling the wife wishes to have with her husba nd's colleague. What follows is a breathless pursuit that takes t he woman not only across the American continent and away from her husband, but also far beyond her original infatuation into a dis covery of the transformative power of first person narrative. Bre aking through into honesty whatever the consequences, Kraus parad oxically becomes a-personal and heroic, almost prophetic in its e mbrace of the world outside. I Love Dick is a manifesto for a new kind of feminist who isn't afraid to burn through her own narcis sism in order to assume responsibility for itself and for all the injustice in world. It is the kind of book that you can't put do wn before you finish reading it all and turns you into another pe rson, just like the writer herself. Between 9:30 aand 11:30 I tr ied your number four more times but hung up on your machine. At 1 :45 a.m. I tried again, your line was busy. At 2:05 I called agai n and finally reached you. At first your voice was cold, detached . You said you couldn't really talk, but then you did, you did. Editorial Reviews About the Author Chris Kraus is a filmmaker an d the author of I Love Dick and Aliens & Anorexia, and coeditor o f Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader. Index called her o ne of the most subversive voices in American fiction. Her work ha s been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability and da zzling speed. Seller Inventory # 1045r
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