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novel, slipstream, punk, postmodern, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, sex, identity, murder, women
Book 3 of trilogy: The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula (written under the pseudonym the Black Tarantula), I Dreamt I was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining! (written under the pseudonym the Black Tarantula), The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (written under the pseudonym Toulouse Lautrec). Also contained in Young Lust and Portrait of an Eye .
"In The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec Toulouse and Vincent discuss their own obsessive need for sex in a brothel as a girl gets murdered, and standard romance is stripped down to its barest and most erotic essentials." [jacket blurb, Young Lust , 1989]
"By the time of Toulouse, the problem of identity had become too complex and, at the same time, had resolved itself. I realized that identity is made, the legend of Daedalus is true, and perhaps of Icarus, that when one writes, one doesn't express true or false identity, truth or falsity, one makes identity." --Kathy Acker (in the introduction to Young Lust , 1988).
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