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Love in a Dead Language Paperback - 2000
by Lee Siegel
This translation of an Indian sex manual includes an erotic farce and a murder mystery, enticing the reader to follow both victims and celebrants of romantic love on the voyage of folly and lust through movie posters, upside down pages, and other illustrations.
First line
During this painful period in his life, a time in which he felt threatened by what he called his "Oriental distractions," Lee, drinking even more gin than usual, was trying to use writing as a method of dealing with the failure of his erotic impulses, as a way of understanding, if not overcoming, his inability to forge a strong and rational, peaceful and permanent love relationship.
From the jacket flap
"1999 New York Times Book Review" Notable Book of the Year
"Love in a Dead Language" is a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery. Follow numerous victims and celebrants of romantic love on their hypertextual voyage-through movie posters, undergraduate essays, upside-down pages, the Kamasutra: Game of Love board game, and a proposed CD-ROM, to name just a few of the enticements-of folly and lust. "Love in a Dead Language" exposes the complicities between the carnal and the intellectual, the erotic and the exotic, the false and the true. It is as raunchy as it is erudite, as hilarious as it is poignant, and as entertaining as it is profound.
Details
- Title Love in a Dead Language
- Author Lee Siegel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date October 1, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780226756998 / 0226756998
- Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 8.95 x 5.95 x 1.11 in (22.73 x 15.11 x 2.82 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Ethnic Orientation: Indian
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- New York Times, 10/29/2000, Page 36
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