I love dick

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I Love Dick is an autobiographically alienated novel by the American author and artist Chris Kraus , published in 1997, which was translated into German by Kevin Vennemann in 2017 .

content

I Love Dick merges the literary genres of fiction , essay and diary with one another in order to trace the author's psycho-sexual obsessions with the eponymous person named "Dick" - whereby "thick" is also one of the most common American slang terms for the penis . The author and protagonist Chris Kraus, who introduces herself as a failed artist in the novel , met the cowboy Dick around the age of 40 through her husband Sylvère Lotringer . Dick is a media theorist and sociologist whose name is never mentioned throughout the novel, while other protagonists in the book use their real names. Overwhelmed by her feelings, Chris Kraus first writes a story about her first meeting with Dick in her novel and then writes letters that she never sends. Her husband Sylvère also becomes part of the story: once they write Dick together, once individually. But while Sylvère at some point completely loses his interest in the ménage à trois with Dick, Chris becomes more and more entangled in the depths of her own desires.

criticism

Critics described the novel as a “feminist cult classic” that describes the events of the New York art scene with the gaze of a woman who “looks at a dead rat at the dissection table”. The book has been translated into more than a dozen languages and as a TV series in 2017 I Love Dick by Amazon filmed.

German edition

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Kraus: I Love Dick. Novel. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Amanda Hess: Chris Kraus and Jill Soloway Talk About the Show 'I Love Dick'. In: The New York Times. May 17, 2017, accessed April 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Juliane Liebert: Dick is a sensible guy. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 13, 2017, accessed April 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Axel Weidemann: "I Love Dick" on Amazon - Nothing burns hotter than the discharge. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. May 12, 2017, accessed April 3, 2020 .