SOLANAS, Valerie. S.C.U.M. Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men)
SOLANAS, Valerie. S.C.U.M. Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men). With an introduction by Vivian Gornick. London: Olympia Press. 1971. 12mo. Paperback original. First British edition. An about very good copy overall, the cover with abrasion to the front towards edge, the spine a touch wrinkled and slightly rubbed at corner and joints, but the binding sound. The contents fine but for a little pencil marginalia, tape residue browning to the front endpaper gutter from a typed letter (now inserted loosely) from an evidently-inspired previous owner, with a similarly fanatical single-page rant, entitled ‘Schopenhauer reversed’ with no authorial marks.
The remarkable radical manifesto by Valerie Solanas, which, though relatively unknown when published in 1967, blew up after its author attempted to murder Andy Warhol. The manifesto seeks the essential extinction of men, ‘a genetic deficiency’. Solanas, frustrated at her literary opportunities, took aim at Warhol, whose erotic film (I, a Man) Solanas starred in—Roger Ebert called it “a very long and pointless home movie”. Gornick’s excellent introduction to the text, not included in earlier editions, summarises: “written at white heat, and containing within itself the secret knowledge of the victim, the economical insight into the obsessed, the multiplied courage of the utterly disinherited, SCUM is the work of the ultimate loser, of one beyond redemption, and as such its quality is visionary.” The additional typewritten note is an intimate example of the influence the text might have.
SOLANAS, Valerie. S.C.U.M. Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men). With an introduction by Vivian Gornick. London: Olympia Press. 1971. 12mo. Paperback original. First British edition. An about very good copy overall, the cover with abrasion to the front towards edge, the spine a touch wrinkled and slightly rubbed at corner and joints, but the binding sound. The contents fine but for a little pencil marginalia, tape residue browning to the front endpaper gutter from a typed letter (now inserted loosely) from an evidently-inspired previous owner, with a similarly fanatical single-page rant, entitled ‘Schopenhauer reversed’ with no authorial marks.
The remarkable radical manifesto by Valerie Solanas, which, though relatively unknown when published in 1967, blew up after its author attempted to murder Andy Warhol. The manifesto seeks the essential extinction of men, ‘a genetic deficiency’. Solanas, frustrated at her literary opportunities, took aim at Warhol, whose erotic film (I, a Man) Solanas starred in—Roger Ebert called it “a very long and pointless home movie”. Gornick’s excellent introduction to the text, not included in earlier editions, summarises: “written at white heat, and containing within itself the secret knowledge of the victim, the economical insight into the obsessed, the multiplied courage of the utterly disinherited, SCUM is the work of the ultimate loser, of one beyond redemption, and as such its quality is visionary.” The additional typewritten note is an intimate example of the influence the text might have.
SOLANAS, Valerie. S.C.U.M. Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men). With an introduction by Vivian Gornick. London: Olympia Press. 1971. 12mo. Paperback original. First British edition. An about very good copy overall, the cover with abrasion to the front towards edge, the spine a touch wrinkled and slightly rubbed at corner and joints, but the binding sound. The contents fine but for a little pencil marginalia, tape residue browning to the front endpaper gutter from a typed letter (now inserted loosely) from an evidently-inspired previous owner, with a similarly fanatical single-page rant, entitled ‘Schopenhauer reversed’ with no authorial marks.
The remarkable radical manifesto by Valerie Solanas, which, though relatively unknown when published in 1967, blew up after its author attempted to murder Andy Warhol. The manifesto seeks the essential extinction of men, ‘a genetic deficiency’. Solanas, frustrated at her literary opportunities, took aim at Warhol, whose erotic film (I, a Man) Solanas starred in—Roger Ebert called it “a very long and pointless home movie”. Gornick’s excellent introduction to the text, not included in earlier editions, summarises: “written at white heat, and containing within itself the secret knowledge of the victim, the economical insight into the obsessed, the multiplied courage of the utterly disinherited, SCUM is the work of the ultimate loser, of one beyond redemption, and as such its quality is visionary.” The additional typewritten note is an intimate example of the influence the text might have.