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A brilliant and chilling collection of short stories that descends
into the deeper recesses of the human mind and maps the bizarre and
troubling byways of human history.
Dark, witty, and entertaining, The Skull of Charlotte Corday:
And Other Stories returns insistently to the innermost dilemmas of
femininity, spinning strange tales of medical humiliation, sexual
betrayal, perverse eroticism, and the unsettling traumas of child
rearing.
The title story, "The Skull of Charlotte Corday", tells the true
tale of the beautiful assassin, who, during the Great Terror,
murdered the French revolutionary leader Jean Paul Marat in his
bath. After her public execution, Corday's skull, a rich prize in
the head-trading industry of the day, found its way into the hands
of a descendant of Napoleon, Princess Marie Bonaparte, who was to
become a pioneer psychoanalyst. Leslie Dick skillfully interweaves
the astonishing stories of these two women, their melodramatic
lives linked by a macabre trophy.
From contemporary motherhood in Los Angeles to computer sex in
Paris, these stories explore people, places, and emotions with an
uncanny eye for detail and a sharp insight into the grand
outrageousness of life.
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Kathy Acker - Get Rid of Meaning (Paperback)
Kathy Acker; Edited by Anja Casser, Matias Viegener; Text written by Dodie Bellamy, Kathy Acker, …
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R1,520
R1,283
Discovery Miles 12 830
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For 14 years, Los Angeles-based artist, fashion designer and
musician Lun*na Menoh has been exploring the many unexpected
possibilities of the dirty shirt collar, producing paintings,
sculptures, music, DVDs, performance art and fashion shows inspired
by this lowly, ubiquitous aspect of clothing. The collar is a
fashion boundary--the dividing line between what is hidden by
clothing and the body that emerges from the cloth--and the stains
commonly found there often confound sartorial panache, a fact which
Menoh takes as the mischievous starting point for her work. "Lun*na
Menoh: A Ring Around the Collar" documents the paintings included
in this series, as well as Menoh's performance art and fashion
shows. Included with this book is a flexi-disc with two songs by
the artist's band, Les Sewing Sisters, and an introduction by
acclaimed author Leslie Dick.
Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and
influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and
notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and
plagiarist, her oeuvreover a dozen novels and novellashas inspired
a generation of writers and artists. Lust for Life is the
definitive collection of essays on Acker's inimitable work,
including Peter Wollen's elegiac primer, widely considered the best
introduction to Acker, and Avital Ronell's erudite meditation on
friendship and mourning. Together these essays by scholars and
writers reveal Acker's profound and innovative project, and the
ways in which fiction can penetrate the heart of political and
cultural life.
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