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    Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary

    By Lydia Lunch

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    Paradoxia reveals that Lunch is at her best when she’s at her worst . . . [and] gives voice to her sometimes scary, frequently funny, always canny, never sentimental siren song."Barbara Kruger, Artforum

    Lydia Lunch relays in graphic detail the true psychic repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, Paradoxia is an uncensored, novelized account of one woman’s assault on men.

    Lydia Lunch was the primary instigator of the No Wave Movement and the focal point of the Cinema of Transgression. A musician, writer, and photographer, she exposes the dark underbelly of passion confronting the lusty demons whose struggle for power and control forever stalk the periphery of our collective obsessions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAkashic Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
    ISBN9781617750656
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    • 5/5
      Paradoxia will leave you with dirt under your fingernails and a filthy film over your eyes. But if this book disgusted and horrified you by the third chapter and you pushed yourself to read on and finish the book, well, who is the disturbed one here? This book intends to make you feel these things. It's supposed to turn your stomach. Lydia wants to bring out emotions you never knew were there. She wants to see if you have the guts to finish this atrocity. And you did. So she wins. She got you. Sucker. You got caught in her web for a short time and she had her way with you. She hustles her ass off in this book and then hustles you, the reader because you couldn't help yourself but to read on. This book is a masterpiece in my eyes. Not a masterpiece in general but for what it is and what it's supposed to do. It succeeds. Of course it is embellished but she dares you, forces you to think about things you never imagined. Lydia Lunch says and does whatever the hell she wants. She doesn't let her damage control her, she takes full advantage of it. These are the things that make her a relevant artist. She is nobody's puppet. In today's world, every artist is somebody's puppet. And besides, this book is hilarious.
    • 3/5
      I found intriguing the idea of a woman,who has been exploited and abused by men transforming herself into a predator, and using and abusing men herself through sex and manipulation. There is a lot of sex and manipulation present here, but it's hard to tell who the victim is at times. One sure thing about this book are the vivid wildness of so many of the settings and supporting character's in Lydia's narrative, they are so strange and exaggerated that they must be real. There does seem to be inauthenticity in the tone of the narrative voices, which grinds on the mind as one still easily reads through the volume, for all its grotesque theater. Lydia tries to paint herself as an otherworldly devourer, a bare-knuckled bitch that could kill with wit or fist. This persona, though perhaps true in some sense, comes across on the page as extremely self-conscious.