The faculty of dreams : amendment to the theory of sexuality : or Valerie
Stridsberg, Sara, 1972-2019
Book
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019. In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood, and the mental hospitals where she was interned. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, Stridsberg reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, articulating the thoughts and fears that she struggled to express in life and giving a powerful, heartbreaking voice to the writer of the infamous SCUM Manifesto.
Main title:
The faculty of dreams : amendment to the theory of sexuality : or Valerie / Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner.
Author:
Stridsberg, Sara, 1972-, authorBragan-Turner, Deborah, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
338 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
First published as Drömfakulteten - tillägg till sexualteorin.Translated from the Swedish.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: BAMBILAND -- New York Magazine, April 25, 1991 -- Bristol Hotel, April 25, 1988, Day of Your Death -- Bristol Hotel, April 7, 1988, a Few Weeks Before the End -- Manhattan Criminal Court, June 3, 1968 -- Ventor, Summer 1945 -- Manhattan Criminal Court, June 3, 1968 -- Ventor, Summer 1945 -- Bristol Hotel, April 9, 1988, Your Birthday -- Ventor, June 1946 -- Bristol Hotel, April 10, 1988 -- The Narrators -- Ventor, Summer 1948 -- Bristol Hotel, April 11, 1988 -- THE OCEANS -- Bristol Hotel, April 12, 1988 -- Ventor, February 1951 -- Alligator Reef, March 1951 -- State Supreme Court, June 13, 1968 -- Alligator Reef, April 1951 -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, July 2, 1968 -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, July 13, 1968 -- Bristol Hotel, April 13, 1988 -- Ventor, June 1951 -- America, Road Movie, May 1951 -- October 1952 -- The Architects -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, July 29, 1968 -- Bristol Hotel, April 14, 1988 --Contents note continued: Alligator Reef, December 1953 -- Alligator Reef, 1953--1954 -- Alligator Reef, Winter 1955 -- Bristol Hotel, April 15, 1988 -- Alligator Reef, Summer 1955 -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, August 10, 1968 -- LABORATORY PARK -- Bristol Hotel, April 16, 1988 -- Alligator Reef, Autumn 1956 -- Jacksonville College, Early Summer 1958 -- Jacksonville College, Late Summer 1958 -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, September 8, 1968 -- University of Maryland, August 1958 -- Bristol Hotel, April 17, 1988 -- University of Maryland, October 1958 -- University of Maryland, February 1959 -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, December 24, 1968 -- Christmas Eve, Conversation Two -- Christmas Eve, Conversation Three -- University of Maryland, Autumn 1959 -- The Psychoanalysts -- Bristol Hotel, April 18, 1988 -- University of Maryland, August 1962 -- The Tenderloin, Winter 1987, One Year Before Your Death -- University of Maryland, 1963 --Contents note continued: Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, April 1969 -- Swanning Around in the Sciences I -- Swanning Around in the Sciences II -- New York, Summer 1966 -- Bristol Hotel, April 19, 1988 -- THE FACTORY -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, May 14, 1969 -- New York, October 1967 -- "Great Art" -- Elizabeth Duncan and Death, September 1967 -- Notice to Unknown Writers -- Chelsea Hotel, November 1967 -- Your Long Silences with Cosmo -- Bristol Hotel, April 20, 1988 -- The Factory, December 1967 -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, June 1969 -- Chelsea Hotel, February 1968 -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, June 1969 -- Bristol Hotel, April 21, 1988 -- New York - College Park, March 1968 -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, July 1969 -- Cosmogirl My Love -- Elmhurst Psychiatric Hospital, July 15, 1969 -- The Factory, Later in March 1968 -- Movie Star 1968 -- The Parasites -- LOVE VALERIE -- New York, May 1968 -- Chelsea Hotel, May 1968 --Contents note continued: Mission District, San Francisco, May 1968 -- New York, May 1968 -- Chelsea Hotel, Still May 1968 -- Bristol Hotel, April 23, 1988 -- Max's Kansas City, May 1968 -- The Presidents -- 33 Union Square, June 3, 1968 -- Film Sequence, the Last One from the Factory -- Andy and Death -- Arithmetic and Surfing I -- Arithmetic and Surfing II -- Arithmetic and Surfing III -- New York State Prison for Women, 1969--1971 -- Bristol Hotel, April 25, 1988, the Last Day -- America, Life Is a Court Case -- On the Other Side of the Alphabet -- Bristol Hotel, April 25, 1988, During the Night -- One Last Room Lit Up, One Exploding Lily in the Darkness.
ISBN:
9780857054722
Dewey class:
839.738
Language:
EnglishSwedish
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Subject:
Solanas, Valerie -- FictionFeminists -- FictionFeminists -- United States -- FictionMentally ill -- United States -- FictionPsychiatric hospitals -- FictionReminiscing -- FictionTrials (Attempted murder) -- FictionWomen -- United States -- FictionWomen authors -- FictionWomen authors, American -- 20th century -- FictionWomen convicts -- United States -- FictionBiographical fictionEpistolary fictionExperimental fictionHistorical fiction
BRN:
66612