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The faculty of dreams, amendment to the theory of sexuality, or, Valerie, Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner

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The faculty of dreams, amendment to the theory of sexuality, or, Valerie, Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

The faculty of dreams

Responsibility statement

Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner

Sub title

amendment to the theory of sexuality, or, Valerie

Summary

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. Only fifty-two she was 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, giving her a powerful and heartbreaking voice

Target audience

adult

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Valerie

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