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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-love-dick-is-one-of-the-most-important-books-about-being-a-woman-no-wonder-it-s-being-dismissed-a6721336.html
>It’s hard to explain exactly what I Love Dick is: autofiction; an epistolary novel; fantasy; or, according to early critics, a gossipy invasion of a feted art critic’s privacy. But how it is categorised is less important than the reaction to the book.
>Ferrante, in a recent Vanity Fair interview said: “Often that which we are unable to tell ourselves coincides with that which we do not want to tell, and if a book offers us a portrait of those things, we feel annoyed, or resentful, because… reading about them disturbs us.”
>The same sense of being disturbed afflicts critics of Kraus’s book - many of whom refuse to read it at all, denying it is art and dismissing it as gossip.
>Women can be as destructive, possessive and prone to rage as men, it turns out: but discovering that is what terrifies them, while exhilarating women.

/lit/ misogynists BTFO. I bet you shitlords haven't even read this stunning and brave work of modern fiction yet. It's not gossip, it's art--and men are just scared.

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