I Love Dick

by Chris Kraus

Paperback, 279 pages

English language

Published Sept. 1, 2006 by Semiotext(e).

ISBN:: 978-1-58435-034-7

(7 reviews)

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.

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Kevin Smokler reviewed I Love Dick by Chris Kraus

Review of 'I Love Dick' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I’m thunderstruck. Friggin genius.

jv reviewed I Love Dick by Chris Kraus

Review of 'I Love Dick' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Sinceramente... estuve a punto de abandonarlo antes de llegar a la mitad. Toda la situación que da sustento al libro me parecía pueril y caprichosa. Lo que pasa es que Kraus es inteligente e informada, y los toques de crítica cultural consiguieron mantenerme interesado. Precisamente cuando el proyecto de acoso a Dick remite y entran otros temas, que Kraus aprovecha para justificarlo, la cosa se vuelve bastante más interesante.

Me ha recordado a Spanbauer en la exposición descarnada de la intimidad, menos en el interés de Kraus por temas como la filosofía o el feminismo.