Empire of the Senseless - Hardcover
Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins.
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Set in the near future, in a Paris rated by two terrorists and occasional lovers, Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, part robot and part human.
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Set in the present and near future, this is an apocalyptic tale that makes Clockwork Orange look tame. It's alternately narrated by the female Abhor, "part robot, part black," and the male Thivai, a diagnosed paranoid. Thivai is a sort of wide-eyed Huck Finn adventuring through a postmodern world that is punctuated by random violence. Algerian immigrants have taken over Paris, Western cities are now "composed of dead and mutants," punky kids are playing at being terrorists, CIA plots aboundall this, Acker tells us during the age of Reagan. The most eerie quality of these new-age humanoids is their anesthetized emotions; females of any age are referred to as "cunts" and sadomasochistic relationships, be they homosexual or heterosexual, whether involving children or consenting adults, are the norm. A plotless stream-of-consciousness style and sexually explicit prose only dull Acker's powerful message.
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- PublisherPan Books Ltd
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0330301926
- ISBN 13 9780330301923
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Robert Mason (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, some slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£10.95), faint previous owner's inscription to bottom of title page, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 229pp. 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, part human. Together and apart, the two undertake an odyssey of carnage, a holocaust of 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'. Kathy Acker (1947-97), was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and feminist erotic writer. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, the writer William S. Burroughs, the artist and theoretician David Antin, French critical theory, feminist artists Carolee Schneeman and Eleanor Antin, and by philosophy, mysticism, and pornography. A scarce book. Seller Inventory # 007320
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 227pp. Typical touch of toning to the pages, else fine in fine glossy dust jacket. Signed by Acker. Advance Review Copy with author photograph and publisher's slip from the American publisher (Grove) laid in. Seller Inventory # 555474
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