When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a ro
gue 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 ado
lescent 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 fir
st published in 1997.
Widely considered to be the most important feminist nov
el of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant,
fierce and funny as ever.
