Название: Empire of the Senseless
Автор: Кэти Акер
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Управление, подбор персонала
isbn: 9780802146571
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WORKS BY KATHY ACKER PUBLISHED BY GROVE PRESS
Blood and Guts in High School
Don Quixote
Empire of the Senseless
Great Expectations
In Memoriam to Identity
Literal Madness
My Mother: Demonology
Portrait of an Eye
Rip-off Red, Girl Detective
Pussy, King of the Pirates
Essential Acker
EMPIRE of the SENSELESS_____________
Kathy Acker
Introduction by Alexandra Kleeman
Copyright © 1988 by Kathy Acker
Illustrations by Kathy Acker
Introduction copyright © 2018 by Alexandra Kleeman
Cover design by Becca Fox Design
Cover photograph © Michel Delsol
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THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Published simultaneously in Canada
Printed in the United States of America
First Grove Atlantic edition: October 1988
This Grove Atlantic edition: May 2018
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 88-19154
ISBN 978-0-8021-2835-5
eISBN 978-0-8021-4657-1
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Table of Contents
Works by Kathy Acker Published by Grove Press
Introduction by Alexandra Kleeman
Elegy for the World of the Fathers
I Rape by the Father (Abhor through Thivai)
II Raise Us From the Dead (Thivai)
III In Honour of the Arabs (Abhor)
V Let Let the Algerians Take Over Paris (Abhor)
II The Beginning of Criminality /The Beginning of Morning (Abhor)
III On Becoming Algerian (Thivai)
I I Realize Something (Thivai)
“I make nothing new, create nothing: I’m a sort of mad journalist,”1 Kathy Acker wrote in 1989, on Empire of the Senseless, her fifth book from a major publisher СКАЧАТЬ