Chris Kraus – författare & böcker

I Love Dick

AvChris Kraus

Pocket, Svenska, 2018

(3)

89 kr

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»Den fulländade idéromanen. Genial.« | Rebecka Kärde, Dagens Nyheter

»Ett hemligt vapen för en frustrerad feministisk gerilla.« | Alice Kassius Eggers, Aftonbladet Kultur

»En tragedi som borrar sig djupt in i själen.« | Expressen Kultur

»En fallstudie över erotisk besatthet.« | Svenska Dagbladet

»Romanen lärde mig att vi ska leva, inte dö.« | Tone Schunnesson, Bon

»En av de senaste 20 årens mest intellektuellt vidgande och skarpt underhållande romaner.« | Elis Burrau, Nöjesguiden

»Vem får tala och hur? 2016 års roligaste upptäckt är Kraus bok som placerar sig någonstans mellan fiktion och kulturkritik, eller snarare, den vägrar inordna sig i fack och insisterar på sin egen kraft som litteratur.« Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker | Mats O. Svensson, DN

»En rasande konstnärs uppror mot alla former av patriarkalt förtryck.« | Sydsvenskan

»Att läsa I love Dick är ett sant nöje. Jag har lust att läsa om den igen, genast!.« | Blekinge Läns Tidning

»En intelligent och tonsäker uppgörelse med manliga maktstrukturer.« | Vestmanlands Läns Tidning

Chris Kraus är en misslyckad experimentell filmmakare som snart ska fylla fyrtio. Hon är gift med den franska hippa kritikern Sylvère Lotringer, som undervisar vid Columbia University. De flyttar mellan olika sommarhus som de hyr ut för att tjäna extra. Efter en flört under en middag blir Chris mer och mer besatt av Sylvères kollega, Dick.Chris Kraus autofiktiva debutroman är ett elektriskt och kompromisslöst utforskande av begär, kärlek och makt. Dick har senare identifierats som medieteoretikern Dick Hebdige. Sedan I Love Dick utgavs har den fått status som en av de skarpaste - och roligaste - feministiska romanerna om erotisk besatthet. I översättning av Annelie Axén.CHRIS KRAUS är född i Nya Zealand och bor i Los Angeles. Hon är en amerikansk författare, konstnär, filmskapare, redaktör, kritiker och professor i filmhistoria vid European Graduate School, Schweiz. Hon är redaktör på förlaget Semiotext(e), tillsammans med Hedi El Kholti och Sylvère Lotringer. Kraus startade också och drev den feministiska utgivningsserien Native Agents som gett ut bland annat Kathy Acker och Eileen Myles.»Genialisk och oemotståndlig« | HANNA JEDVIK, GP»En humoristisk och skamlös skildring av erotisk besatthet sammanvävd med resonemang kring konst och filosofi.« | ANNA REMMETS, ETC»Fullständigt genial!« | CECILIA IREFALK, ARBETAREN»När jag hittade I Love Dick var det som att hitta den saknade pusselbiten till allt jag någonsin läst och allt jag någonsin försökt skriva.« | EMILY GOULD, THE GUARDIAN

I love Dick

AvChris Kraus

Inbunden, Svenska, 2016

(3)

69 kr

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»Den fulländade idéromanen. Genial.« | Rebecka Kärde, Dagens Nyheter

»Ett hemligt vapen för en frustrerad feministisk gerilla.« | Alice Kassius Eggers, Aftonbladet Kultur

»En tragedi som borrar sig djupt in i själen.« | Expressen Kultur

»En fallstudie över erotisk besatthet.« | Svenska Dagbladet

»Romanen lärde mig att vi ska leva, inte dö.« | Tone Schunnesson, Bon

»En av de senaste 20 årens mest intellektuellt vidgande och skarpt underhållande romaner.« | Elis Burrau, Nöjesguiden

»Vem får tala och hur? 2016 års roligaste upptäckt är Kraus bok som placerar sig någonstans mellan fiktion och kulturkritik, eller snarare, den vägrar inordna sig i fack och insisterar på sin egen kraft som litteratur.« Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker | Mats O. Svensson, DN

»En rasande konstnärs uppror mot alla former av patriarkalt förtryck.« | Sydsvenskan

»Att läsa I love Dick är ett sant nöje. Jag har lust att läsa om den igen, genast!.« | Blekinge Läns Tidning

»En intelligent och tonsäker uppgörelse med manliga maktstrukturer.« | Vestmanlands Läns Tidning

Chris Kraus är en misslyckad experimentell filmmakare som snart ska fylla fyrtio. Hon är gift med den franska hippa kritikern Sylvère Lotringer, som undervisar vid Columbia University. De flyttar mellan olika sommarhus som de hyr ut för att tjäna extra. Efter en flört under en middag blir Chris mer och mer besatt av Sylvères kollega, Dick.Chris Kraus autofiktiva debutroman är ett elektriskt och kompromisslöst utforskande av begär, kärlek och makt. Dick har senare identifierats som medieteoretikern Dick Hebdige. Sedan I Love Dick utgavs har den fått status som en av de skarpaste - och roligaste - feministiska romanerna om erotisk besatthet. I översättning av Annelie Axén.CHRIS KRAUS är född i Nya Zealand och bor i Los Angeles. Hon är en amerikansk författare, konstnär, filmskapare, redaktör, kritiker och professor i filmhistoria vid European Graduate School, Schweiz. Hon är redaktör på förlaget Semiotext(e), tillsammans med Hedi El Kholti och Sylvère Lotringer. Kraus startade också och drev den feministiska utgivningsserien Native Agents som gett ut bland annat Kathy Acker och Eileen Myles.»Vem får tala och hur? 2016 års roligaste upptäckt är Kraus bok som placerar sig någonstans mellan fiktion och kulturkritik, eller snarare, den vägrar inordna sig i fack och insisterar på sin egen kraft som litteratur.« Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker | MATS O. SVENSSON, DN»På ytan är I Love Dick en feministisk text - en ylande och kompromisslös undersökning av heterosexuellt begär. Chris Kraus har i en intervju beskrivit den som en komedi eller kanske rentav en satir. Men mot slutet är det inte längre någon som skrattar. Den här tragedin borrar sig så djupt in att man efteråt inte kan sätta någon etikett på upplevelsen.« | ULRIKA KÄRNBORG, EXPRESSEN»Genialisk och oemotståndlig« | HANNA JEDVIK, GP»En humoristisk och skamlös skildring av erotisk besatthet sammanvävd med resonemang kring konst och filosofi.« | ANNA REMMETS, ETC»Fullständigt genial!« | CECILIA IREFALK, ARBETAREN»När jag hittade I Love Dick var det som att hitta den saknade pusselbiten till allt jag någonsin läst och allt jag någonsin försökt skriva.« | EMILY GOULD, THE GUARDIAN

Murder Story

AvChris Kraus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

131 kr

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After Kathy Acker

A Biography

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

132 kr

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Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer, and as a member of the artistic communities from which she emerged. At once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Acker traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody. Using exhaustive archival research and ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues and friends, Kraus charts Acker's movement through some of the late 20th century's most significant artistic enterprises.

Visualizing the Tragic

Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature

AvChris Kraus,Simon Goldhillm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

3 276 kr

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Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description. Topics treated include the interaction of comedy and dithyramb with tragedy; vase painting and tragedy; representations of Dionysus, of Tragoedia, and of Nike; Homer, Aeschylus, Philostratus, and Longus; choral lyric and ritual performance, choral victories, and the staging of choruses on the modern stage. The common focus of all the essays is an engagement with and response to the unique scholarly voice of Froma Zeitlin.

Bastard Factory

AvChris Kraus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

236 kr

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Chris Kraus’ The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv.Hubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth century. They will find themselves – along with their Jewish adopted sister, Ev Solm – caught up in in the maelstrom of their changing times.As the two brothers climb the rungs of society – working first for the government in Nazi Germany, then as agents for the Allied Forces, and eventually becoming spies for the young West Germany – Ev will be their constant companion, and eventually a lover to them both. The passionate love triangle that emerges will propel the characters to terrifying moral and political depths.The story of the Solms is also the story of twentieth-century Germany: the decline of an old world and the rise of a new one – under new auspices but with the same familiar protagonists.Translated from the German by Ruth Martin

Bastard Factory

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

151 kr

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Chris Kraus’ The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga and Moscow, Berlin and Munich, all the way to Tel Aviv.Hubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth century. They will find themselves – along with their Jewish adopted sister, Ev Solm – caught up in in the maelstrom of their changing times.As the two brothers climb the rungs of society – working first for the government in Nazi Germany, then as agents for the Allied forces, and eventually becoming spies for the young West Germany – Ev will be their constant companion, and eventually a lover to them both. The passionate love triangle that emerges will propel the characters to terrifying moral and political depths.The story of the Solms is also the story of twentieth-century Germany: the decline of an old world and the rise of a new one – under new auspices but with the same familiar protagonists.Translated from the German by Ruth Martin

Hatred of Capitalism

A Semiotext(e) Reader

AvChris Kraus,Sylvère Lotringer

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

217 kr

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I Love Dick

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

253 kr

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Where Art Belongs

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

153 kr

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Cool for You

A Novel

AvEileen Myles,Chris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

190 kr

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Social Practices

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

399 kr

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The Four Spent the Day Together

AvChris Kraus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

367 kr

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The Four Spent the Day Together

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

263 kr

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I Love Dick

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

(1)

141 kr

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When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy. Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.

Torpor

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

131 kr

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It's Summer, 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; a post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who can no longer afford an East Village apartment, set off on a journey across the entire former Soviet Bloc with the intention of adopting a Romanian orphan.Unflinchingly dark, hilarious and moving - Torpor is at once a satire and philosophy of cultural history, social identity and failing relationships. Dipping into the trajectory of a life at different moments, Kraus interrogates convention and emotion, creating characters that are flawed, witty, and altogether true to life.Part prequel, part sequel, Torpor continues a project of life-writing; personal, unsparing, and triumphant. If I Love Dick is the book of your 20s, Torpor is the book of your 30s.

Aliens & Anorexia

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

131 kr

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It's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film Gravity & Grace, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction' and 'an amateur intellectual's home video expanded to bulimic lengths' ...It's 1942 in Marseille, and Simone Weil is waiting for the US entry visa that will save her from the Holocaust, while writing work described alternately as a 'radical philosophy of sadness' and 'immoral, trite, irrelevant and paradoxical' ...It's the late 90s, the millennium is approaching, and Chris Kraus is in Los Angeles, not eating, waiting for her s/m partner to reply to her emails ...It's 1943, and Simone Weil is in London, completing her project of transcendence by dying of starvation ...Filled with Chris Kraus' trademark wit and frankness, unfolding to reveal the lives of ecstatic visionaries and failed artists, Aliens & Anorexia is an audacious novel about failure, empathy and sadness.

I Love Dick

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

133 kr

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** The cult novel as adored by writers and feminist icons alike ** ** 30th anniversary edition ** When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy. Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past three decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.

You Must Make Your Death Public

A Collection of Texts and Media on the Work of Chris Kraus

AvChris Kraus,Travis Jeppesenm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

215 kr

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Four Spent the Day Together

AvChris Kraus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

211 kr

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‘Chris Kraus reinvents the true-crime novel’ The New Yorker‘A writer whose antennae are attuned to subtle connections and strange cross-currents’ Colm Tóibín‘This is Chris Kraus’s masterpiece’ Constance DebréAn unforgettable new novel from the author of the modern classic I Love Dick — a witty, probing journey into a fractured America, culminating in the investigation of a teenage murder.On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, rundown town, the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned. No one knows why they did it.At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they’d bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles. Undergoing a period of personal turmoil, moving between LA and Minnesota — between the urban art world and the rural poverty of the icy Iron Range — Catt turns away from her own life and towards the murder case, which soon becomes an obsession. In her attempt to pierce through the mystery surrounding the murder and to understand the teenagers’ lives, Catt also finds herself travelling back through the idiosyncratic, aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town, blue-collar Milford, Connecticut.Written in three linked parts, The Four Spent the Day Together explores the histories of three generations of American lives and the patterns that repeat over lifetimes, and is piercing commentary on the pressures of lives lived on the edge.

Four Spent the Day Together

AvChris Kraus

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

122 kr

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‘Chris Kraus reinvents the true-crime novel’ The New Yorker‘A writer whose antennae are attuned to subtle connections and strange cross-currents’ Colm Tóibín‘This is Chris Kraus’s masterpiece’ Constance DebréOn the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, rundown town, the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned. No one knows why they did it.At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they’d bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles. Undergoing a period of personal turmoil, moving between LA and Minnesota — between the urban art world and the rural poverty of the icy Iron Range — Catt turns away from her own life and towards the murder case, which soon becomes an obsession. In her attempt to pierce through the mystery surrounding the murder and to understand the teenagers’ lives, Catt also finds herself travelling back through the idiosyncratic, aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town, blue-collar Milford, Connecticut. Written in three linked parts, The Four Spent the Day Together explores the histories of three generations of American lives and the patterns that repeat over lifetimes, and is piercing commentary on the pressures of lives lived on the edge.