{"product_id":"i-love-dick-isbn-9781584350347","title":"I Love Dick","description":"\u003cb\u003eA self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of \u003ci\u003eAliens \u0026amp; Anorexia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTorpor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVideo Green\u003c\/i\u003e, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that\u003ci\u003e I Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003eA clever, finely crafted crossover between life, love and cultural studies.—\u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut my favorite example of the genre is from nearly 20 years ago, and it's by a woman. Chris Kraus's 'I Love Dick' offers the story of a woman named Chris Kraus—also an experimental filmmaker, just like the author—reckoning with her unrequited love for 'Dick ____,' a cultural critic with whom she becomes obsessed. The narrative is an exploration of desire as something other than passivity or inadequacy ('I think desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy—a claustrophobia inside your skin') and relentless romantic pursuit not as self-degradation but a kind of generative, creative act.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most important book about men and women written in the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA little masterpiece of late twenieth century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEast Hampton Star\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevastatingly funny and sublime... a new classic.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver since I read \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, I have revered it as one of the most explosive, revealing, lacerating, and unusual memoirs ever committed to the page... \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePost Road\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTart, brazen and funny... a cautionary tale, \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e raises disturbing but compelling questions about female social behavior, power, control.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe biggest art revelation of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Zealand Listener\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnexpectedly riveting.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e—Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEileen Myles, named by BUST magazine \"the rock star of modern poetry,\" is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eChelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNot Me\u003c\/i\u003e (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Fuck You\u003c\/i\u003e (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.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300936569061,"sku":"NP9781584350347","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584350347.jpg?v=1767729666","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/i-love-dick-isbn-9781584350347","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}