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| Category:
Fiction/General
| Publication:
2006 Spring
| Rights sold:
Dutch/De Geus
Norwegian/ Aschehoug
Danish/ Athene (Aschehoug Denmark)
German/ Fischer Verlage
French/ éditions Stock
Spanish/ 451 editores
Polish/ W. A. B
Serbian/ V. B. Z. Beograd
| Agent:
Jenny Thor
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| Sara Stridsberg (Author) |
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| Swedish title: Drömfakulteten |
The Dream Faculty is a passionate novel of great depth. The narrative revolves around the ultra-feminist icon Valeri Solanas and her in many ways tragic life story. Stridsberg mixes documentary material and free fiction in a feverisly vibrant prose. The novel's subtitle is 'postscript to the sexual theory', and the story constitutes a blistering showdown with the various repressive mechanisms society employs. Despite the seriousness of the subject, The Dream Faculty is borne by a tremendous energy and linguistic lust" , the Adjudication Committee wrote.
The Dream Faculty was published in 2006, this time a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, the woman who will go down in history for writing the ultra-feminist manifesto SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) in the sixties and who later, after having tried to co-operate with Andy Warhol, shot and seriously injured him.
Sara Stridsberg has also translated the SCUM manifesto into Swedish and written a play about Valerie Solanas. The fictitious story in ‘The Dream Faculty’ is that the author visits Valerie Solanas at the end of her life in a room in the Bristol Hotel in the red-light Tenderloin District of San Fransisco, where Valerie Solanas was living where she died in 1988, kneeling by the bedside, sick and wretched, aged 52.
Awards:
The Swedish author Sara Stridsberg has won the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize 2007 for her work The Dream Faculty (Drömfakulteten).
 Sample translation
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