Don Quijote, que fue un sueño

Don Quixote rides again. But now she is a woman, a lady-errant wandering between London and New York. It is not books of chivalry that have driven her mad and cast her into the world, but the transfiguring experience of an abortion. And she does not have to contend with windmills, but with the sorcerers of her time: with American history and with Richard Nixon, still leader of a nightmarish world populated by brothel owners, transsexuals, and masochistic priests. And what does this unpredictable Don Quixote seek? Love, or perhaps only the knowledge of what love is, in order to save the world. But let readers not be deceived: in Kathy Acker's universe, love is nothing more than a dialectic of master and slave, a cruel mythology, a fiction of language invented by men behind women's backs, a conflict between powers.