I Love Dick
Autor Chris Krausen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2016
Recomandăm această experiență de lectură celor care caută în literatură nu doar o poveste, ci o deconstrucție radicală a dorinței și a identității feminine. I Love Dick nu este un roman convențional, ci un hibrid îndrăzneț între confesiune și teorie, potrivit cititorului care apreciază onestitatea brutală și interogația intelectuală. Remarcăm modul în care Chris Kraus transformă o situație aparent banală — o obsesie neîmpărtășită pentru un universitar numit Dick — într-un manifest despre dreptul femeii de a fi subiectul propriei dorințe, nu doar obiectul ei.
În tradiția explorărilor subconștientului și a dorințelor tabu regăsite în House of Incest de Anaïs Nin, Chris Kraus reimaginează jurnalul intim ca pe un spațiu de luptă politică și filozofică. Dacă la Nin întâlnim o lirică a visului, la Kraus găsim o proză tăioasă, marcată de ceea ce critica a numit „furie feministă”. Considerăm că forța cărții rezidă în refuzul de a separa viața personală de discursul academic, o abordare care se regăsește și în alte lucrări ale sale, precum Aliens & Anorexia sau Torpor, unde granițele dintre biografie și ficțiune devin la fel de poroase.
Stilul este unul febril, marcat de o urgență a comunicării; scrisorile către Dick devin un vehicul pentru a analiza eșecul artistic, dinamica puterii în cuplu și marginalizarea vocii feminine. Spre deosebire de alte romane contemporane despre obsesie, aici nu întâlnim victimizare, ci o asumare intelectuală a vulnerabilității. Este o lectură densă, care provoacă și neliniștește, rămânând la fel de relevantă pentru discursul critic actual ca în momentul apariției sale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1781256489
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Pentru cititorul interesat de intersecția dintre artă, feminism și dorință, această carte oferă o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care obsesia poate deveni un instrument de eliberare intelectuală. Veți câștiga acces la o voce narativă care refuză compromisul, transformând vulnerabilitatea personală într-o formă de putere. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă evoluția literaturii feministe contemporane și limitele auto-ficțiunii.
Despre autor
Chris Kraus este o figură centrală a literaturii experimentale și a criticii de artă contemporane. Profesor de scriere la European Graduate School și colaborator constant al unor reviste de prestigiu, Kraus s-a stabilit în Los Angeles, unde și-a construit o operă ce sfidează clasificările de gen. Printre cele mai cunoscute lucrări ale sale se numără romanele Aliens & Anorexia și Torpor, precum și volume de eseuri despre cultura vizuală ca Video Green. Opera sa este marcată de o explorare neobosită a eșecului, a muncii și a condiției artistului în societatea contemporană, teme regăsite și în relatarea sa despre experiența într-un centru Amazon, Seasonal Associate.
Notă biografică
Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick and Summer of Hate as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs. A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.
Recenzii
The intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensable - especially now, when everything is so confusing, so full of despair. I read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with her brightness, and with incredible humor, too.
I Love Dick is a classic. Here pain is the aphrodisiac and distance is the muse. Unrequited love is transformed into a fascinating book of ideas.
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.
I Love Dick is written in a clear prose capable of theoretical clarity, descriptive delicacy, articulate rage and melancholic longing
Tart, brazen and funny ... a cautionary tale, I Love Dick raises disturbing but compelling questions about female social behavior, power, control
For years before I read it, I kept hearing about Chris Kraus's I Love Dick. I mainly heard about it from smart women who liked to talk about their feelings ... I didn't understand exactly what it was, but it had an allure, like whispers about a dance club that only opened under the full moon, or an underground bar you needed a password to get into ... then I read it. I was nearly two decades late to the party - I Love Dick came out in 1997 - but I loved the party anyway. I was finally part of it, and it made me feel even more part of it - part of something ... I was holding white-hot text in my hands
I Love Dick is one of the most important books about being a woman ... Friends speak of Kraus's work in the same breathless and conspiratorial way they discuss Elena Ferrante's novels of female friendship set in Naples. The clandestine clubbishness that envelopes women who've read and immersed themselves in the texts shows how little female desire, anger and vulnerability is accurately and confidently explored in literature and culture ... the book reveals far deeper truths than standard and uncomplicated love plots tend to.
This is the most important book written about men and women written in the last century... why is this revolutionary 18-year-old book finding its biggest audience only now? The answer lies in its own pages, when Kraus writes that "who gets to speak, and why, is the only question". In the last half a decade, women have been permitted to speak in a different way than before; women artists who use details of their own lives in their work are not as easily dismissed as they once were. The internet enables hordes of frightened, anonymous men to try to silence women via harassment and shaming, but it has also enabled our voices to be heard on a grander scale, with fewer intermediaries, than ever before. We are able to write our own letters to Dick now, and to publish them widely: to tell Dick exactly what we think of him, whether he likes it or not.This book will only become more relevant. Its time is now - and now, and now, for the rest of eternity.
This book comes with a reputation, though it's not the one you might expect from the title, which leaps from the gorgeous, faux-innocent cover. Chris Kraus's "novel" was first published in the US in 1997 and has become recognised as both an influential feminist text and a key intervention in the debate over where life-writing ends and fiction begins ... What remains so brilliant about the book is the real, useful thought that Kraus builds out of her romantic fantasy ... You can call it a novel, then, but it's as a philosophical and cultural critique that I Love Dick bites hardest.
Read this on the bus - we dare you
One of the most important feminist novels of the past two decades -
A joyful riposte to all those stories in which clever women fall victim to the pressures of convention - from The Yellow Wallpaper to The Bell Jar and beyond - and also to the countless books by men in which women are crushed by romantic encounters: from Madame Bovary to Anna Karenina to Laclos's epistolatory Les Liaisons Dangereuses and André Breton's autofiction, Nadja ... What makes now the right moment to publish Kraus's debut novel for the first time in the UK, after 18 years? There is a hint of retrospective gratitude: without Kraus, we might not have had the philosophers in high heels of Zoe Pilger's Eat My Heart Out, or Susana Medina's Philosophical Toys. Without her challenge to what she called "the 'serious' contemporary hetero-male novel ... a thinly veiled Story of Me", Sheila Heti might never have asked How Should a Person Be?, and Ben Lerner might never have written Leaving the Atocha Station. A whole generation of writers owes her ... You can get high on the book's passion, its humour, on the creation of a still-fresh style that not only says new things about female experience, but is able simultaneously to comment, tongue-in-cheek, on how this experience has been written, filmed and made into art. Kraus writes with an elegance that includes enough rough edges to make I Love Dick a game for real. -
A literary must-have accessory, a relentlessly clever-clever book at fits neatly into the radical space recently opened up by semi-autobiographical novelists such as Nell Zink and Elena Ferrante ... It has some hugely arresting things to say about women's relationships with creative self-determination.
The skill of the book allows the reader to enter into the fantasy (the one sex scene is torturous, but hot) while knowing it's destructive and one-sided. Chris recognises how vulnerable - ridiculous even - infatuation has made her. But she glories in the surrender ... This is a brilliant, experimental rollercoaster of a book ... there's something radical about a woman who pushes herself to the edge, finally to recover.
Genre-defying and dare I say it seminal ... It has possibly even more to tell us now than it did on first publication - or perhaps we're just more ready to hear it ... I Love Dick is one of the most important books about the limited ways in which women are permitted to speak.
I Love Dick is a wonderful catalogue of contradiction and desire, which benefits from the flexible and imaginative excess of its starting point: infatuation. It's also extremely funny and frantically absorbing.
A formidable novel of ideas
As important as Mrs Dalloway or The Bell Jar
Descriere
When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy.
Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.