Empire of the Senseless - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of the Senseless write by Kathy Acker. This book was released on 1988. Empire of the Senseless available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in the near future, in a Paris devastated by revolution and disease, Empire of the Senseless is narrated by two terrorists and occasional lovers, Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, part robot and part human. Together and apart, the two undertake an odyssey of carnage, a holocaust of the erotic. "An elegy for the world of our fathers," as Kathy Acker calls it, where the terrorists and the wretched of the earth are in command, marching down a road charted by Genet to a Marseillaise composed by Sade.
Empire of the Senseless
Empire of the Senseless - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of the Senseless write by Kathy Acker. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Empire of the Senseless available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A cyborg and her pirate lover travel through a violent Paris in this “apocalyptic tale that makes A Clockwork Orange look tame” (Publishers Weekly). Originally published in 1988, Empire of the Senseless marked a turning point in Acker’s wild, inimitable style. Considered one of her more accessible works, here Acker candidly addresses her lifelong obsessions: childhood and trauma, language and sexuality, criminality and corruption, oppression and rebellion. Abhor (part human, part robot) and her lover Thivai (a pirate) traverse Paris in a dystopian future, in search of a mysterious drug that Thivai needs in order to maintain his ability to love. Navigating the chaotic city, they encounter mad doctors, prisoners, bikers, sailors, tattooists, terrorists, and prostitutes, while a band of Algerian revolutionaries take over, and the CIA plots to thwart them all. Sexually explicit, graphically violent, Empire of the Senseless resists the desensitizing of cultural consciousness and the disintegration of interpersonal communication. A timeless, prescient parable, it speaks profoundly to our social and political history as well as our present reality. Praise for Empire of the Senseless “[A] complex, high-speed, intensely intellectual, intensely offensive, post-modernist, pained and painful, punk, fantastic, fictional construct and elaborate tattoo of a novel.” —New York Times “Empire of the Senseless is a family romance turned inside out, a twisted re-creation of quest sagas and Bildungsroman and TV sitcoms.” —Philadelphia Enquirer “A world of ugly truths, beautifully expressed. If you care to learn why Kathy Acker is such an important writer, I suggest you put aside your preconceptions, stop making sense, and read this book immediately.” —Alan Moore
The Postmodern Sensibilities of Kathy Acker
The Postmodern Sensibilities of Kathy Acker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postmodern Sensibilities of Kathy Acker write by Suzanne Trax Long. This book was released on 1992. The Postmodern Sensibilities of Kathy Acker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Razing Us from the Dead
Razing Us from the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Razing Us from the Dead write by Karla Audrel Leighton. This book was released on 1991. Razing Us from the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tactical Readings
Tactical Readings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tactical Readings write by Nicola Pitchford. This book was released on 2002. Tactical Readings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Both writers' novels borrow heavily from other authors, and in doing so they offer strategies for a politically committed rereading of literary history and its interaction with the popular imagination.".
