YAYOI KUSAMA | Hustlers Grotto

Rare book of Kusama's fiction writing.  The book contains the Kusama novellas “The Hustlers Grotto of Christopher Street,” “Foxgloves of Central Park,” and “Death Smell Acacia.” The novellas' themes are familiar to Kusama's life. The Surrealist writing style familiar to her visual and performance art.  Translated to English from the Japanese by Ralph F. McCarthy.

Pages are clean and crisp. Cover has light rubbing, corner wear, and two small areas of laminate wrinkling at base of back cover. Very good condition.

Alexandra Munroe writes in the afterward, "The fright, anxiety and panic that rule Kusama's characters and give such frenzy to her narratives arise by some creative genealogy from her own traumatic experiences that have psychically obsessed her for some fifty years." "While imaginary forces continue to transgress and disrupt her notions of phenomenal realism, confirming her status as an outsider, she emerges through her art and writing as the consummate insider. As readers, we too stride that edge."

5.4 x 8.4 inches