{"product_id":"kathy-acker-hannibal-lecter-my-father-1991","title":"Kathy Acker — Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)","description":"\u003cp\u003eKathy Acker, \u003cem\u003eHannibal Lecter, My Father\u003c\/em\u003e. New York: Semiotext(e), Native Agents Series, 1991. Paperback. 148 pp. 11 × 18 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Good.\u003c\/strong\u003e Light foxing to the front pages, minor shelf wear and handling marks to covers, binding sound, text clean overall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA first edition of one of Kathy Acker's most provocative late works, published by Semiotext(e)'s influential Native Agents series. Combining autobiography, appropriation, literary theft, pornography, criticism, and fiction, \u003cem\u003eHannibal Lecter, My Father\u003c\/em\u003e occupies the territory Acker spent her career constructing: a space where authorship becomes unstable and identity is assembled from borrowed parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover itself announces the book's central strategy: \u003cem\u003eThis writing is all fake (copied from other writing) so you should go away and not read any of it.\u003c\/em\u003e It functions as both warning and manifesto. By 1991, Acker had already become one of the defining figures of experimental American writing, openly incorporating and rewriting texts by authors ranging from Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson to Georges Bataille. Plagiarism, in her hands, became method rather than transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also sits within a broader history of literary impersonation and appropriation. Acker famously wrote her own promotional endorsement for an earlier publication and attributed it to French novelist and theorist Alain Robbe-Grillet, collapsing the distinction between author, critic, and publicity machine. That gesture echoes throughout this volume, where originality is treated less as a virtue than as a fiction maintained by institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued by Semiotext(e) during a period when the press was introducing radical theory, experimental literature, and countercultural writing to American readers, this remains one of Acker's most sought-after titles from the Native Agents series. The striking pink cover, portrait photograph, and confrontational text have made it one of the most recognizable editions associated with her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn important document from a writer whose influence extends well beyond literature into contemporary art, appropriation practices, feminist writing, and questions of authorship that continue to resonate today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53612098847058,"sku":"ACKER-SEMIOTEXTE-CAT-1991","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_-Kathy.-Hannibal-Lecter_-My-Father-cover.jpg?v=1780250309","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/kathy-acker-hannibal-lecter-my-father-1991","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}