In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that 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, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters, the 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 all the injustice in 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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"A clever, finely crafted crossover between life, love and cultural studies." -- Peter Beilharz, The Australian
"A little masterpiece of late twenieth century literature." East Hampton Star
"Devastatingly funny and sublime... a new classic." The Seattle Stranger
"Ever since I read I Love Dick, I have revered it as one of the most explosive, revealing, lacerating, and unusual memoirs ever committed to the page... I Love Dick is never a comfortable read, and it is by turns exasperating, horrifying, and lurid, but it is never less than genuine, and often completely illuminating about the life of the mind." Rick Moody Post Road
"Tart, brazen and funny... a cautionary tale, I Love Dick raises disturbing but compelling questions about female social behavior, power, control." The Nation
"The biggest art revelation of the year." The New Zealand Listener
"Unexpectedly riveting." BookForum
About the Author
Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Torpor, 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.
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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this book gives one an intricate look inside the mind of a married woman wrestling with the emotions of love and lust for a man who objectifies himself to her cause. while dick is the source of adornment and folly, chris's unsupported love is forced to take on new forms. a vicarious adventure in which the concept of love (for self and other) can be explored.
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this book gives one an intricate look inside the mind of a married woman wrestling with the emotions of love and lust for a man who objectifies himself to her cause. while dick is the source of adornment and folly, chris's unsupported love is forced to take on new forms. a vicarious adventure in which the concept of true love can be explored.
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Okay, it's not a perfect book. It's scary and self-indulgent and could have been trimmed. Yet ... it sticks with me like few things I've read this year. Read more
Published on Sep 26 1999
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I Love Dick Embraces Failure With Style
This intriguingly titled volume is authored by Chris Kraus, a New Zealand-born alternative film-maker and teacher, now based in LA and New York. Read more
Published on Jan 20 1999 by brigid.shadbolt@excite.com
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This is a brilliant book.
This is a brilliant book. Like Proust, it is a narrative of the writer's sexual pursuit of a vacant love object, the pursuit of which is primarily to enable the writer to dwell on... Read more
Published on Nov 30 1998
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read it and leave it!
I Love Dick is a terrific ride - order it, read it and pass it along to your best girl or guy friend, leave it on a train or plane or your doctor's office. Read more
Published on Jun 29 1998 by cfrields@pacbell.net
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both engaging and a little annoying
Although it bogs down some in the middle, overall this is a fascinating/infuriating/perplexing/upsetting view into Chris Kraus's mind. Read more
Published on Jun 26 1998
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better than _Titanic_
This is my favorite book of 1997. It deconstructs the romance narrative to which we are accustomed, and does so with great wit, intellectual acumen, and artistic vision. Read more
Published on May 7 1998 by Elizabeth A. Grainger
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Poor Dick!
I read this book because Ira Glass (This American Life - NPR) featured the story on one of his shows. Read more
Published on April 24 1998 by "kathys8"
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