Literal madness

Literal madness

Three Novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida

Acker, Kathy

$328.00 MXN
Editorial:
Grove Press
Año de edición:
1994
Materia
Literatura norteamericana
ISBN:
978-0-8021-3156-0
Idioma:
Inglés

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  • Great Expectations
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    Kathy Acker’s practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious--as a rebel and a groundbreaker--when "Great Expectations" was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens’s classic--splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat’s sexually violent Eden, Eden, Eden, among other texts--alongside Acker’s trademark pithy dialogue, as well as ...

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  • In Memoriam to Identity
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    In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time and time again. Airplane takes a job dancing at Fun City, the seventh tier of the sex industry, in or...

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  • My Mother
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    Based loosely on the relationship between Colette Peignot and Georges Bataille, My Mother: Demonology is the powerful story of a woman's struggle with the contradictory impulses for love and solitude. At the dawn of her adult life, Laure becomes involved in a passionate and all-consuming love affair with her companion, B. But this ultimately leaves her dissatisfied, as she ackn...

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  • Portrait of an Eye, The
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    Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know. -New York Times Book ReviewThe Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula, Kathy Acker's debut and the first in this three-novel collection, began as an episodic handmade pamphlet that Acker mailed out to influential writers and artists whose addresses she managed to get her hands ...

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  • Blood and Guts in High School: Anniversary...
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    A masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School is the book that established Kathy Acker as the preeminent voice of post-punk feminism. With 2017 marking the 70th anniversary of her birth, as well as the 10th year since her death this transgressive work of philosophical, political, and sexual insight-...

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  • Don Quixote
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    Kathy Acker's Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing "the most insane idea that any woman can think of. Which is to love."In this visionary world, Don Quixote journeys through American history to the final days of the Nixon administration, passing on the way through a New York re...

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