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Robert Glück

    Robert Glück è stato un teorico della New Narrative, narratore ed editore il cui lavoro sperimentale, spesso in prosa, infonde la teoria L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E con un discorso queer, femminista e di classe. Ha esplorato profondamente l'autobiografia, definendola per includere sogni ad occhi aperti, l'atto della scrittura, il rapporto con il lettore e il sé come collaborazione e disintegrazione. Il suo approccio esaminava le lacune, le incongruenze e le distorsioni nelle narrazioni personali e culturali. La scrittura di Glück approfondisce le intersezioni di potere, famiglia, storia e linguaggio, offrendo una prospettiva unica sulle complessità dell'identità e della narrazione.

    Margery Kempe
    • Margery Kempe

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century woman and Jesus Christ. First published in 1994, Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe is one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on the first autobiography in English, the medieval Book of Margery Kempe, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia, a visionary, a troublemaker, a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and an aspiring saint, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author’s own love for an alluring and elusive young American, L. It is complicated. Between these two Margery Kempe, the novel, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire, devotion, abjection, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Glück’s masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. This edition includes an essay by Glück about the creation of the book titled "My Margery, Margery's Bob."

      Margery Kempe2020
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