SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its time - predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the arts - but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.
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If SCUM ever marches it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face, if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade. --Valerie Solanas
*** One of the main influences on NICK CAVE'S new novel 'THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO' *** --Sean O'Hagan, The Observer
Valerie Solanas wrote a very angry and very precise portrait of what she considered the male to be: something between a human and an ape; an unresponsive blob only concerned with physical sensation and without the capacity for empathy or self-knowledge or intimacy, and at the same time full of hatred and jealously and shame and guilt. Her description is beautiful and on some level, I think, entirely accurate. --Nick Cave
*** One of the main influences on NICK CAVE'S new novel 'THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO' *** --Sean O'Hagan, The Observer
Valerie Solanas wrote a very angry and very precise portrait of what she considered the male to be: something between a human and an ape; an unresponsive blob only concerned with physical sensation and without the capacity for empathy or self-knowledge or intimacy, and at the same time full of hatred and jealously and shame and guilt. Her description is beautiful and on some level, I think, entirely accurate. --Nick Cave
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Valerie Solanas was born in Ventor, New Jersey in 1936. She was living in Greenwich Village in New York City in 1967 when she wrote 'Up Your Ass', a play, and sought out Andy Warhol to produce it. She appeared in Warhol's film 'A Man', and then she shot him in 1968. She was indicted on charges of attempted murder, assault, and illegal possession of a gun, sent to a psychiatric hospital, and released after three years. In 1988, she died of emphysema and pnerumonia in a welfare hospital in San Francisco. Avital Ronell, a professor of German and comparative Literature and the chair of the German Department at New York University, is the author of Stupidity; Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania; Finitude's Score: Essays for the end of the Millennium; The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech; and Dictations: Unhaunted Writings
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By Bobby Moon
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I have to say this little book has always fascinated me, I have only read extracts, getting this little book was dynamite. For it's weeee size it packs a punch, it is most definitely not for the faint hearted. I think every woman should at least give it a go and yes you do have to hold it at arms length but that is part of the pleasure of reading it. You have to take it in contaxt the author did not have a great hand dealt her and then Andy Warhol was a bit of a sod when it came to "using" his entourage. He deserved it!! This book will not close quietly and nor should it. There is a deeply, painfully felt tone to the writing that will resonate even with the most reticient female readership and frighten most men. It was not meant to be read by men this is a woman's book and I think sometimes we forget this fact. Brave, unstinting and timeless - a shattering portrayal of the deep ills, rot and evil perpetrated by partiarchy on the whole of society in the name of "normalness" and "getting along" according to whatever religion and government that is in power. A brave woman without doubt and this book will attract bad reviews and detractors but that is part of its charm it is not meant to be pleasant by any stretch of the imagination.
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Speedy delivery from the seller, many thanks. This book is enjoyable and interesting, can't say i agree with a lot of it but it is a book i would recommend.
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Excellent. It sounds like a genuine frothing at the mouth feminist. Sort of thing they are probably mildly embarassed about stocking in a lesbian bookshop in camden. Indcidentally the sex pistols film "the great rock and roll swindle" quotes from it with the womans face who is reading it covered in crawling ants. The venomous passage is directly against steve jones in the film, but APplies to all men to a greater or lesser extent.
Good fun to read on the train.
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