Paperback, 279 pages
English language
Published July 14, 2006 by Semiotext(e).
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.
Dear Chris,
Thank you for this experience. A beautifully crafted book that is novel, memoir, art criticism and feminist theory smashed together sublimely. It presents life in a cutting but clear portrayal of your own openness. It was an absolute joy to read.
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