I Love Dick

In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens &Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fictionfrom reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dickinstantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionateadmirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independentfilmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors toseduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer herletters, the husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other instead, imagining the fling the wife wishes to have with Dick. What follows is a breathlesspursuit that takes the woman across America and away from her husband;and farbeyond her original infatuation into a discovery of the transformative power offirst person narrative. I Love Dick is a manifesto for a new kind of feminist whoisn't afraid to burn through her own narcissism in order to assume responsibilityfor herself and for all the injustice in world;and it's a book you won't put downuntil the author's final, heroic acts of self-revelation andtransformation.