Literal Madness: Three Novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida

by Kathy Acker

Overview

Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na’veté that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined” (Los Angeles Times).

My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini – wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bronté sisters – is a “scathing commentary on false values in art” (The Hartford Courant)

In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves “a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials.” (Booklist)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802131560
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	01/13/1994
Series:	Acker, Kathy Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

What People are Saying About This

Catherine Texier

"Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative."

Lynne Tillman

"No writer I know is more audicious than Cathy Acker, who's anarchic wit tries a thorough going attack on conventons and complacencies of all sorts....No unlike Gertrude Stein in her day, Acker gives us a different way to look at the uses to which language is put."