Chris Kraus
Paperback | Pages: 277 pages Rating: 3.54 | 11327 Users | 1116 Reviews
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| Original Title: | I Love Dick |
| ISBN: | 1584350342 (ISBN13: 9781584350347) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that upon its publication in 1997, I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married failed independent filmmaker who is about to turn forty falls in love with a well-known art and culture theorist named Dick and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband, a defiantly unconventional French academic with whom she hasn't had sex in a very long time.But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters, husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other instead, imagining the fling the wife wishes to have with Dick. What follows is a breathless pursuit that takes the woman across America and away from her husband and far beyond her original infatuation into a discovery of the transformative power of first-person narrative.
I Love Dick is a manifesto for a new kind of feminist who isn't afraid to burn through her own narcissism in order to assume responsibility for herself and for the injustice in the world, and it's a book you won't put down until the author's final, heroic acts of self-revelation and transformation.
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| Title | : | I Love Dick |
| Author | : | Chris Kraus |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
| Published | : | July 14th 2006 by Semiotext(e) (first published November 1997) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Feminism. Novels |
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This book is about a lot of things, art, feminism, love, obsession, criticism, sex, self perception. I love all the themes it touches, and I am crazy with how original and brilliant it is. Kraus balances so many things, and makes herself the object of a great story, told in a manner which makes you feel you are in the middle of a performance, and sometimes feeling pretty uncomfortable. And that is actually part of the charm. Dick is one of the protagonists, even if unwilling to be a part of it,. . . Chris and I are sensible people. We don't do anything without a reason. . . . and then you came . . . What a disappointment! I picked this one up because it appeared on a list of funniest books, though other than the absurdity of the premise, there's not a whole lot of chuckles here. Chris and her husband Sylvère are not exactly embroiled in marital bliss. To put it bluntly, it's been a long time since they've had sex. (I'm guessing it's laziness, not love that's keeping these two
In a just world, this would be the next selection of the Oprah Book Club.
This is one multi-layered, -genred, -contextured bit of bookChris and her husband Sylviere attend a dinner with Dick, a colleague of Sylvieres and an intellectual in the arts sector. Throughout the evening Chris feels Dick is flirting with her. Flattered, she attempts to distance herself from Sylviere and the married couple end up staying the night at Dicks house due to unsavoury weather conditions.The next morning, Dick has left them alone. The couple leave and stop for breakfast where Chris
I had to stop reading this. It feels like I've been tricked into participating in a cruel piece of performance art. The titular Dick is real life Dick Hebdige. He's a cultural critic who hangs out with Chris Kraus and her husband Sylvere one time. Chris and Sylvere then begin to sexually harass and stalk Dick. They write letters about fucking and killing him. They call Dick on the pretext of discussing their "art protect" (aka their sexual fantasies) and record the phone call without his
Chris Kraus succeeds at making the novel novel again. I LOVE DICK has more than just a great title, its a fantastic a story. This investigation of sexual obsession should bury its head in its navel but instead falls down a critical rabbit hole where it discovers a new genre. The Dick of the title is sort of a dick, but also a cypher representing every man, maybe even everyone reading the book. Because as Kraus the character becomes more infatuated with the character of Dick its impossible not to
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