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Utopia's debris : selected essays / Gary Indiana.
| Author/creator | Indiana, Gary |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Basic Books, ©2008. |
| Description | xi, 315 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Desertshore. Barbara Kruger : the war at home -- Kindergarten governor -- Murdering the dead -- Pretty vacant -- Gavin Lambert (1924-2005) : the goodbye person -- The infernal evidence. Even cowboys get the blues -- The madness of the day -- Testosterone express -- Homicide can be such a drag -- About Mary Woronov -- Daniel Schmid's La paloma -- William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) -- That awful mess at the governor's mansion -- Surrealisms and the power of emotion. Of Caroline Blackwood -- Wurlitzer's wiles -- Bulle Ogier, phenomenon without a pause -- Cunning, exile, contingency -- Germany inside him : Rainer Fassbinder and the spell of dystopia -- Vienna III, kundmanngasse 19 -- Major motifs -- Curzio Malaparte -- Conjuror of St. Germain -- Emmanuel Carrère's counterfeiters -- And the fog comes rolling in. The excremental republic -- Überdolls -- The gearworks of doom -- Don't buy us with sorry after burning down the barn -- Sublime pariah : Céline's voyages into the whirlwind -- Amnesia and its double -- Blame it on brio -- No such thing as paranoia -- Utopia's debris. Barbet Schroeder's Terror's advocate -- Susan Sontag (1933-2004) -- Robert Bresson : hidden in plain sight -- Simenon l'incroyable -- Weill, Brecht, Mahagonny. |
| General note | Consists of articles and essays mainly written between 1996 and 2008. |
| LCCN | 2008031640 |
| ISBN | 9780465002481 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 046500248X (alk. paper) |