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Chris Kraus: Torpor

Chris Kraus takes her aim at the traditional bourgeois novel about marriage and family and delivers a book full of bullet-holes... What is left standing?

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By Michael Silverblatt • Oct 12, 2006 • 30m Listen

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Torpor

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Chris Kraus takes her aim at the traditional bourgeois novel about marriage and family and delivers a book full of bullet-holes: the death of the novel, the fall of Europe, the end of the family, devastation of the arts. What is left standing? A battle-scarred but indefatigably hopeful

I-Love-Lucy-esque Chris Kraus.

  • Read an excerpt from Torpor.

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    Michael Silverblatt

    host, 'Bookworm'

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