4.5
Portrait of an Eye
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Beginning with
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
she steps into the biography of a Mississippi murderess who falls in love with a famous lawyer. In
she takes a man capable of deceiving both sexes as her lover in a dreamy odyssey through the labyrinth of her desires. In
Toulouse Lautrec is a woman starved for love and sex.
All of Acker's obsessions "the frenzy of sexual desire, the search for identity, the invention of a new literary language" are present here with savage purity and raw energy.
Includes:
"A countercultural hero who hybridized elements of punk, literary postmodernism, feminism, and critical theory in her public identity and in her literary works." —
"For Kathy, the breakthrough was her first serial novel,
. . . 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." —Chris Kraus,
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“I only read Black Tarantula, but I absolutely loved it. I wrote my senior thesis for my English Lit. Degree on her use (or lack thereof) of authority and identity in Black Tarantula. Amazing read..”
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