Издания и произведения

Крис, художница-неудачница на пороге сорокалетия, проводит вечер с известным теоретиком культуры по имени Дик. Безумно и необъяснимо влюбившись, Крис начинает писать ему письма, вовлекая в этот процесс мужа. Когда Дик отказывается включаться в игру, Крис продолжает писать, исследуя преобразующую силу повествования от первого лица. Впервые опубликованный в 1997 году, роман I Love Dick пережил несколько волн переиздания, достигнув широкой аудитории читателей в 2015-м. Размывая границы между художественной и мемуарной прозой, арт-критикой и тревелогом, Крис Краус поднимает историю одержимости до философского уровня.

When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy. Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce…

In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters, the husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other instead, imagining the…

Oh Dick, I want to be an intellectual like you."In "I LOVE DICK," published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of "Aliens & Anorexia," "Torpor," and "Video Green," opened up an entirely new era in the history of writing by boldly tearing away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expressions. No wonder it instantly elicited violent controversies and also a host of passionate admirers.The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist (a colleague of her…