When Chris Kraus meets Dick, a theorist linked to countercultural movements, her life takes an unexpected turn. A frustrated artist nearing forty, married to a renowned filmmaker, she enters a state of amorous frenzy that leads her to leave the comfort of a life in the shadows and to 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.
What begins as a series of obsessive love letters turns 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. I Love Dick blends autobiography, essay, and fiction in a text that questions the figure of the woman who desires, who watches, 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, I Love Dick paved the way for contemporary autofiction and for a writing that mixes cultural critique, theory, and intimate life. This Spanish edition from Alpha Decay, revised and accompanied by a foreword by Gabriela Wiener, recovers all the power, irony, and clarity of the book and reaffirms it as essential reading for those interested in the intersection of literature, art, feminism, and narrative experimentation.
