Literal Madness: Three Novels
by Kathy Acker
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A collection of three novels from the experimental feminist writer: "Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative." --Catherine Texier, author of VictorineKathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, "speaks to us out of a delightful mock-naivete that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex... At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare show more combined" (Los Angeles Times).My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini--wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bronte? sisters--is a "scathing commentary on false values in art" (The Hartford Courant).In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves "a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials" (Booklist)."There's a haunting method to Acker's 'madness': a rough, raw, erudite wail against the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion." --Kirkus Reviews show lessTags
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Most of the time I have no idea what Acker is writing about, but I know it's excellent. She writes sex with the best ever, and observes the world with a deeply intellectual though simultaneously transgressive and punk rock attitude. She died way too young.
even the less succesful experimental works are more interesting than most author's magna opera
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