Great Expectations
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Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar, our orphaned narrator is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; becoming, by turns, a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw, through adventures incorporating desire, creativity, porn, sadism and art. This ribald explosion of literature, sex and violence shows the literary anarchist Kathy Acker at her most brilliant and brave.
'Acker's most accomplished experimental work' The Village Voice
'A postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill' William S. Burroughs
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Reading this book feels like looking at a map, in that you can constantly trace movements in a linear way, but sometimes, you forget or lose track of where you're going. It's very chaotic, dark, fractured, and filled with tension. Contained here is the definition of the unreliable narrator. Acker switches between genders, sexual orientations, and tenses to create a dizzying flurry of events. The narrator wants love more than anything and will do anything to get it. Tarot readings, being with dangerous men, shoving away her important feelings regarding her parents. It all blurs together and feels like vertigo. There is no plot. What I mean by this is you spend so much time understanding what's happening in the book that you feel like everything & nothing happened at once. There is only fear and chaos. "At least a university professor really has to make a living. Language means nothing anymore anyway." "WHERE DO EMOTIONS COME FROM, ARE EMOTIONS NECESSARY, WHAT DO EMOTIONS TELL US ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS?"
Description
Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar, our orphaned narrator is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; becoming, by turns, a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw, through adventures incorporating desire, creativity, porn, sadism and art. This ribald explosion of literature, sex and violence shows the literary anarchist Kathy Acker at her most brilliant and brave.
'Acker's most accomplished experimental work' The Village Voice
'A postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill' William S. Burroughs
Book Information
Posts
Reading this book feels like looking at a map, in that you can constantly trace movements in a linear way, but sometimes, you forget or lose track of where you're going. It's very chaotic, dark, fractured, and filled with tension. Contained here is the definition of the unreliable narrator. Acker switches between genders, sexual orientations, and tenses to create a dizzying flurry of events. The narrator wants love more than anything and will do anything to get it. Tarot readings, being with dangerous men, shoving away her important feelings regarding her parents. It all blurs together and feels like vertigo. There is no plot. What I mean by this is you spend so much time understanding what's happening in the book that you feel like everything & nothing happened at once. There is only fear and chaos. "At least a university professor really has to make a living. Language means nothing anymore anyway." "WHERE DO EMOTIONS COME FROM, ARE EMOTIONS NECESSARY, WHAT DO EMOTIONS TELL US ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS?"