From the Inside Flap C'est l'histoire d'une femme qui devient folle, folle amoureuse de Dick, qu'elle n'a rencontré qu'une seule fois en compagnie de son mari. Elle décide d'écrire à cet homme. Par jeu ou par défi, son mari décide de lui écrire à son tour. De cette situation triangulaire insolite, Chris Kraus tire une méditation subversive sur la place des femmes dans le couple et dans le monde d'aujourd'hui. Manière de relecture des Liaisons dangereuses autant que de Madame Bovary, ce livre culte efface les limites entre fiction, essai et récit autobiographique. From the Back Cover C'est l'histoire d'une femme qui devient folle, folle amoureuse de Dick, qu'elle n'a rencontré qu'une seule fois en compagnie de son mari. Elle décide d'écrire à cet homme. Par jeu ou par défi, son mari décide de lui écrire à son tour. De cette situation triangulaire insolite, Chris Kraus tire une méditation subversive sur la place des femmes dans le couple et dans le monde d'aujourd'hui. Manière de relecture des Liaisons dangereuses autant que de Madame Bovary, ce livre culte efface les limites entre fiction, essai et récit autobiographique. See all Product description
C**Y
Just amazing.
Chris Kraus is my new hero. I was so blown away by I Love Dick that I read all her other stuff straight after, and it's all fantastic. If you are interested in a book with a totally honest, original, arty, droll, contemporary voice, you have to read this. But don't go looking for plot; there is one, but it's of secondary importance. Just amazing.
M**Y
Good read if you're bored of conventional stories
I enjoyed reading this (although I probably wouldn't read it again). i think it's such a strange and bizarre concept but for some reason I could totally relate to it. i love the style it's written in, even if the characters came across as quite pretentious at times I really liked them all. i've read a lot of bad reviews about it but i thought it was really original & clever. i'm watching the series on prime which isn't as great - if you're planning on watching i'd read it first. all the concepts included are deeply explored, nothing is skimmed over & everything is well explained. can't think of any faults !
C**N
I love I love Dick.
This is a wonderful book about longing, obsession, marriage and boredom and the often devastating consequences of being alive, generally. Bought it after the brilliant series based on it and I was completely enamoured.
V**N
Not for me.
OMG. I have watched a discussion about this book on tv and decided to read it as it sounded great. Absolute rubbish. I actually could not figure out until halfway into the book, which character is which. A very dull read indeed.
A**R
Halfway through, don’t think I’ll finish
Currently halfway through and it feels like nothing has actually happened. A boring and pretentious couple have written a load of tragic, self-indulgent letters to this man they’re obsessed with and then they drove around America for a bit to try and find him (??). That’s it. That’s all that’s really happened. I want to give this book a chance and keep going but it’s proving a struggle...
A**W
great book- very intellectual
Brilliant book which deconstructs the ideas of relationships as we know them. It is very intense and heavy though so takes a long time to read as you can only do a chapter at a time.
A**N
Passionate and Heartbreaking
Chris Kraus is my new literary hero. She captures the confusion and desire of unrequited, no let's say cruelly indifferent (he never actually discourages her), infatuation and all of the emotional and physical side-effects this has. Combining her loose narrative of letters with varying intellectual discussions, occasionally metaphors for her 'condition', this book pushes the imaginations of its readers to encompass what a disgustingly large volume of people featured in 'I Love Dick' believe to be impossible, incompatible: the intelligent, passionate female.
M**S
Hard Book to Get Into
This didn't appeal to me at all. It is really confusing at the start. The story is really hard to get into. It's one of those books that if you want a nice easy read for the holiday, this is probably not the book to buy. Personally, I gave up with it after reading the first 100 pages (or so). Not a style of writing I enjoyed or connected with.
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