Kathy Acker: To the blood. Mauled in High School | Eichendorff 21

Janey lives in a room that is locked from the outside. Twice a day the Persian slave trader comes in and teaches her to be a whore. Otherwise nothing happens. One day, when she finds a pencil stub and a piece of paper in a forgotten corner of the room, she begins to write down her life. It all started with her father, who was also her lover at the same time, but then fell in love with someone else… With Bis aufs Blut, Kathy Acker has created a brilliantly subversive narrative made up of conversations, descriptions, drawings, assumptions and notes consists. Thoroughly composed and wild, somber and garish at the same time, this piece of literature falls out of every era.

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