Don Quixote

Kathy Acker's Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing 'the most insane idea that any woman can think of. Which is to love.'

Summary

Kathy Acker’s Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing “the most insane idea that any woman can think of. Which is to love.”

In this visionary world, Don Quixote journeys through American history to the final days of the Nixon administration, passing on the way through a New York reminiscent of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg and a brutally defamiliarized contemporary London. Here transvestites who might play at being Nazis and beautiful she-males enact the rituals of courtly love. Presiding over this late-twentieth-century Leviathan is Thomas Hobbes–the Angel of Death.

Product details

• Authors: Kathy Acker, Acker Kathy
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.1994
• EAN: 9780802131928
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3192-8
• No. of pages: 207
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 208 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 238 g
• Series: Acker, Kathy; Acker, Kathy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, FICTION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Fiction - General, Fiction: general & literary, FICTION / LGBT / Lesbian, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, c 1980 to c 1989, TOPICAL / LGBT