Modern Love

Constance DeJong

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Constance De Jong’s long-neglected, late-1970s novel, Modern Love, is one thing made up of many: It’s science-fiction. It’s a detective story. It is a historical episode in the time of the Armada and the dislocation of Sephardic Jews from Spain to an eventual location in New York’s lower east side. It is a first person narrator’s story; Charlotte’s story; and Roderigo’s; and Fifi Corday’s. It is a 150 year old story about Oregon and the story of a house in Oregon. Modern Love’s continuity is made of flow and motion, like an experience, it accumulates, as you read, at that moment, through successive moments, right to the end.

Essay / Literature, Theory / History / Criticism
Description
An important figure of downtown New York's performance art and burgeoning media art scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, De Jong designed Modern Love herself and published it with help from Dorothea Tanning on the short-lived Standard Editions imprint. Critically acclaimed in its time, Modern Love is now back in print exactly 40 years since its original publication.
224 pages
Paperback, 12x18.3 cm
English
Primary Information, 1st edition 2017
ISBN 9780991558520