Empire of the Senseless
Author | : Kathy Acker |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1988 |
ISBN-10 | : 0802131794 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780802131799 |
Rating | : 4/5 (799 Downloads) |
Download or read book Empire of the Senseless written by Kathy Acker and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the near future, in a Paris devastated by revolution and disease, Empire of the Senseless is narrated by two terrorists and occasional lovers, Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, part robot and part human. Together and apart, the two undertake an odyssey of carnage, a holocaust of the erotic. "An elegy for the world of our fathers," as Kathy Acker calls it, where the terrorists and the wretched of the earth are in command, marching down a road charted by Genet to a Marseillaise composed by Sade.