Kathy Acker

Great Expectations

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Kathy Acker’s practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious—as a rebel and a groundbreaker—when Great Expectations was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens’s classic—splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat’s sexually violent Eden, Eden, Eden, among other texts—alongside Acker’s trademark pithy dialogue, as well as prank missives to the likes of Susan Sontag, Sylvère Lotringer, and God.
At the center of this form-shifting narrative, Acker’s protagonist collects an inheritance following her mother’s suicide, which compels her to revisit and reinterpret traumatic scenes from the past. Switching perspectives, identities, genders, and centuries, the speaker lustily ransacks world literature to celebrate and challenge the discourse around art, love, life, and death.
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108 printed pages
Publication year
2018
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  • Marisol García Wallshas quoted3 years ago
    My idea of happiness is numbness.
  • Marisol García Wallshas quoted3 years ago
    Because I am hating my mother I am separating women into virgins or whores rather than believing I can be fertile.
    I have no idea how to begin to forgive someone much less my mother. I have no idea where to begin: repression’s impossible because it’s stupid and I’m a materialist
  • carsten60394has quoted4 years ago
    love is mad and I don’t want to be mad.

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