When Chris Kraus meets Dick, a theorist connected to countercultural movements, her life takes an unexpected turn. A frustrated artist on the brink of forty, married to a renowned filmmaker, she enters a state of passionate frenzy that leads her to leave the comfort of a life in the shadows and chase her dark object of desire through different cities in the United States. That infatuation becomes a crack through which all her doubts about love, femininity, success, and failure seep in.
What begins as a series of obsessive love letters transforms into something else. The letters the narrator compulsively writes stop focusing on Dick and become an artistic form in themselves, a device to think about the relationship between desire, power, gender, class, and the art world. Amo a Dick blends autobiography, essay, and fiction into a text that questions the figure of the woman who desires, who looks, and who writes, shifting the traditional gaze of the male genius.
Originally published in 1997 and considered one of the most influential feminist novels of recent decades, Amo a Dick paved the way for contemporary autofiction and for a writing style that mixes cultural criticism, theory, and intimate life. This Spanish edition from Alpha Decay, revised and accompanied by a prologue by Gabriela Wiener, recovers all the power, irony, and lucidity of the book and reaffirms it as essential reading for those interested in the intersection of literature, art, feminism, and narrative experimentation.
