Portrait of an Eye
Kathy Acker
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Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
A collection of three early, self-published novels by the author of Empire of the Senseless.Beginning with The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula in 1973, Kathy Acker set out on a brilliant journey toward the boundaries of modern fiction that has made her one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation.From the start, Kathy Acker created a brash and sexy female voice as shocking as the worlds she invokes. In Childlike Life she steps into the biography of a Mississippi murderess who falls in love with a famous lawyer. In I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac she takes a man capable of deceiving both sexes as her lover in a dreamy odyssey through the labyrinth of her desires. In The Adult Life Toulouse Lautrec is a woman starved for love and sex.All of Acker's obsessions "e;the frenzy of sexual desire, the search for identity, the invention of a new literary language"e; are present here with savage purity and raw energy.Includes:The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black TarantulaI Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: ImaginingThe Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse LautrecPraise for Kathy Acker and Portrait of an Eye"e;A countercultural hero who hybridized elements of punk, literary postmodernism, feminism, and critical theory in her public identity and in her literary works."e; -New Republic"e;For Kathy, the breakthrough was her first serial novel, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula . . . she lifts lines from old biographies of murderesses. She adopts their picaresque style and switches out I for she. And suddenly, she's off, and she can say anything."e; -Chris Kraus, Paris Review