Chris Kraus

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Torpor, New EditionPaperback, 2 January 2015

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Reading Age
Ages: 18
Grade Levels
13
Part of Series
Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Print Length
312 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Semiotext(e)
Date Published
2 Jan 2015
ISBN-10
1584351659
ISBN-13
9781584351658

Description

In 1991, unhappily married Sylvie and her husband set off on a journey across Eastern Europe in search of a Romanian orphan to adopt.

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.

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 18
Author:
Chris Kraus
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
2 January 2015
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 13
ISBN-10:
1584351659
ISBN-13:
9781584351658
Language:
English
Location:
Cambridge
Pages:
312
Publisher:
Weight:
453.59 gm

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