Robert Glück (Books)

Robert Glück Books

Robert Glück was a New Narrative theorist, fiction writer, and editor whose experimental work, often prose, infuses L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E theory with queer, feminist, and class-based discourse. He deeply explored autobiography, defining it to include daydreams, the act of writing, the relationship with the reader, and the self as a collaboration and disintegration. His approach examined the gaps, inconsistencies, and distortions in personal and cultural narratives. Glück's writing delves into the intersections of power, family, history, and language, offering a unique perspective on the complexities of identity and storytelling.

Margery Kempe

192 pages
7 hours of reading

Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century woman and Jesus Christ. First published in 1994, Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe is one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on the first autobiography in English, the medieval Book of Margery Kempe, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia, a visionary, a troublemaker, a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and an aspiring saint, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author’s own love for an alluring and elusive young American, L. It is complicated. Between these two Margery Kempe, the novel, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire, devotion, abjection, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Glück’s masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. This edition includes an essay by Glück about the creation of the book titled "My Margery, Margery's Bob."

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