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  • ISBN13:9781584351658
  • ISBN10:1584351659
  • Age:18+
  • Publisher:Semiotext(e)
  • Language:English
  • Author:Chris Kraus
  • Binding:Paperback
  • SUPC: SDL970057850

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Includes foreword by Fanny Howe; afterword by Mckenzie Wark.

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Sylvie wanted to believe that misery could simply be replaced with happiness. Time was a straight line, stretching out before you. If you could create a golden kind of time and lay it right beside the other time, the time of horror, Bad History could just recede into the distance without ever having to be resolved. -- from Torpor

Set at the dawn of the New World Order, Chris Kraus's third novel, Torpor loops back to the beginning of the decade that was the basis of I Love Dick, her pseudo-confessional cult-classic debut. It's summer, 1991, post-MTV, pre-AOL. 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 specious aim of adopting a Romanian orphan. Nirvana's on the radio everywhere, and wars are erupting across Yugoslavia.

Unhappily married to Jerome, a 53-year-old Columbia University professor who loathes academe, Sylvie thinks only of happiness. There are only two things, Sylvie thinks, that will save them: a child of their own, and the success of The Anthropology of Unhappiness, her husband's long-postponed book on the Holocaust. But as they move forward toward impoverished Romania, Jerome's memories of his father's extermination at Auschwitz and his own childhood survival impede them. Savagely ironic and deeply lyrical, Torpor is Kraus's most personal novel to date.

About the Author

Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, and Summer of Hate as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs, all published by Semiotext(e). A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.

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Feminist writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus' novel "Torpor," originally published in 2006, is not the festival of negativity we deserved but the festival of negativity we needed in those -- and these -- artificially untroubled times. As fresh today as it was when it first came out, "Torpor" joins Twitter personalities like Nein Quarterly and So Sad Today to resist the cult of relentless positivity, cultivating a much-needed counter-aesthetics of despair.--Becca Rothfeld "Slate "

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Feminist writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus' novel Torpor, originally published in 2006, is not the festival of negativity we deserved but the festival of negativity we needed in those -- and these -- artificially untroubled times. As fresh today as it was when it first came out, Torpor joins Twitter personalities like Nein Quarterly and So Sad Today to resist the cult of relentless positivity, cultivating a much-needed counter-aesthetics of despair.

--Becca Rothfeld "Slate "

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