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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
October 1, 2000
Pages
375
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226756998
ISBN-10
0226756998
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Original list price
$26.00
Other format details
university press
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Love in a Dead Language is a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery rolled into one. Enticing the reader to follow both victims and celebrants of romantic love on their hypertextual voyage of folly and lust-through movie posters, upside-down pages, the Kamasutra: Game of Love board game, and even a proposed CD-ROM, Love in a Dead Language exposes the complicities between the carnal and the intellectual, the erotic and the exotic and, in the end, is an outrageous operatic portrayal of romantic love.
"Rare is the book that makes one stop and wonder: Is this a literary masterpiece or do I need my head examined? But such is the alternately awe-inspiring and goofy thrall cast by Lee Siegel's Love in a Dead Language. . . . His work stands out as a book that is not simply a novel but its own genus of rollicking, narrative scholarship . . . it is just the cerebral aphrodisiac we need." âCarol Lloyd, Salon
"Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious. . . . [T]he most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction." âPaul di Filippo, Washington Post Book World
"Now along comes Lee Siegel, who mixes a bit of Borges with some Nabokov and then adds an erotic gloss from the Kama Sutra to write Love in a Dead Language, a witty, bawdy, language-rich farce of academic life. . . . Whether it is post-modern or not, Love in a Dead Language is pulled off with such unhinged élan by Mr. Siegel that it is also plain good fun, a clever, literate satire in which almost everything is both travestied and, strangely, loved by its author." âRichard Bernstein, The New York Times
"Love in a Dead Language deserves space on the short, high shelf of literary wonders." âTom LeClair, New York Times Book Review
1999 New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
"Rare is the book that makes one stop and wonder: Is this a literary masterpiece or do I need my head examined? But such is the alternately awe-inspiring and goofy thrall cast by Lee Siegel's Love in a Dead Language. . . . His work stands out as a book that is not simply a novel but its own genus of rollicking, narrative scholarship . . . it is just the cerebral aphrodisiac we need." âCarol Lloyd, Salon
"Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious. . . . [T]he most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction." âPaul di Filippo, Washington Post Book World
"Now along comes Lee Siegel, who mixes a bit of Borges with some Nabokov and then adds an erotic gloss from the Kama Sutra to write Love in a Dead Language, a witty, bawdy, language-rich farce of academic life. . . . Whether it is post-modern or not, Love in a Dead Language is pulled off with such unhinged élan by Mr. Siegel that it is also plain good fun, a clever, literate satire in which almost everything is both travestied and, strangely, loved by its author." âRichard Bernstein, The New York Times
"Love in a Dead Language deserves space on the short, high shelf of literary wonders." âTom LeClair, New York Times Book Review
1999 New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of Chicago Pr (May 15, 1999)
9780226756974 | details & prices | 375 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $28.00
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Univ of Chicago Pr (October 1, 2000)
9780226756998 | details & prices | 375 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Love in a Dead Language is a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery rolled into one.
About: Love in a Dead Language is a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery rolled into one.
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