Don Quixote

Kathy Acker's Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing "e;the most insane idea that any woman can think of.

Which is to love.'"e;In this visionary world, Don Quixote journeys through American history to the final dys of the Nixon administration, passing on the way through a New York reminiscent of prerevolutionary St.

Petersburg and a brutally defamiliarized contemporary London.

Here transvestites who might play at being Nazis and beautiful she-males enact the rituals of courtly love.

Presiding overt this late-twentieth-century Levithian is Thomas Hobbes--the Angel of Death.