![]() Paradoxia is a novel/memoir of Lunch's teenage years and young adulthood. These books document her life as a child, teenager and adult, as well as some of her political convictions. She quickly became one of the driving forces behind the nihilistic no wave movement Lunch headed Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and collaborated with underground personalities like James Chance and Richard Kern. She took her jealousy out on her daughter in physical and emotional violence.Īs a teen, Lunch ran away from home and became a hustler/squatter in New York City. Her mother, an ex-beauty queen "fading fast," was intensely jealous of the young and pretty Lydia. As a teen Lunch was sexually abused by her father, and other men as well. It's therefore interesting to see how her personality translates into prose, and how her experience of life––traumatic, transgressive, transcendent or all of the above––shaped her art.Ī life like Lunch's would have, and probably has, killed a lesser person. On stage or screen, Lydia Lunch is a fascinating character: intensely charismatic, charming and intelligent, Lunch's art touches on the most primal elements of human experience. A mixture of "truth beauty love filth," coupled with a loathing of the mainstream (and much else) characterizes much of Ms.
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