{"id":171695,"date":"2025-09-19T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=171695"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:02:28","slug":"fall-books-chris-kraus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/19\/fall-books-chris-kraus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Books: On Chris Kraus\u2019s <em>The Four Spent the Day Together<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_171696\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171696\" class=\"size-large wp-image-171696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-15-at-173833-1024x535.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-15-at-173833-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-15-at-173833-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-15-at-173833-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-15-at-173833.png 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Kraus, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Chris_Kraus_portrait_2.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. Licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chris Kraus is the author of a book called <em>I Love Dick<\/em>. Chris Kraus is also the author of <em>The Four Spent the Day Together<\/em>, a new novel in which the main character, Catt Greene, is the author of a book called <em>I Love Dick. <\/em>Catt jokes that <em>I Love Dick <\/em>is \u201cthe one with the cover everyone posed with and tweeted.\u201d Catt suspects at least a few of the people who pose with her book haven\u2019t actually read it, but they like what owning the book implies: that they, too, love dick. It makes no difference that the novel is not exactly about loving dick, but about loving Dick, a particular man, not a sex organ. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kraus is interested in words that mislead, in facts that point in various directions (the aliens in <em>Aliens and Anorexia <\/em>aren\u2019t extraterrestrial but inside of us<em>, <\/em>and there is a great deal of energy in <em>Torpor<\/em>). Based on title alone, Kraus\u2019s latest novel might suggest an image of four friends enjoying a luncheon on the grass followed by a charming trip to Brighton Beach. But in fact the novel is a fast-paced mystery told in three interconnected parts that culminate in a subtle reflection on class, power, and the banality of our brute instincts.<\/p>\n<p>Catt, the novel\u2019s heroine, starts out as a hitchhiker and drug dabbler who, in the novel\u2019s second act, buys a cottage in Minnesota\u2019s bleak, meth-plagued Iron Range. By the third act, she\u2019s obsessed with a stunning, senseless murder that took place nearby: three working-class teenagers kidnapped an acquaintance, hung out with him for a few hours, and then killed him.<\/p>\n<p>The randomness of the act confounds Catt. She struggles to understand the teenagers\u2019 motives, their lives prior. \u201cWhat were Brittney and Misty, Micah, Brandon, and Evan really like? What were their jokes, who were their other friends? Whom did they envy, what were their dreams?\u201d Kraus writes.<\/p>\n<p>Catt interviews the locals. She reads through the teenagers\u2019 texts (lots of \u201cwyd\u201d and \u201cWhere you at\u201d). Still, she can \u201cfind no answers.\u201d She is locked out of their innermost consciousnesses, left to put their internal worlds together based on the bits of information provided to her. The lack of causality haunts her, the unconvincing inferences she is forced to make frustrate her. The frustration echoes the reader\u2019s experience of Catt herself\u2014throughout the novel, we are provided only with the facts of Catt\u2019s life and are left to infer the intensity of the emotions that correspond to them. The reader must usher in a lo her reactions towards her alcoholic husband; toward her developmentally impaired little sister; towards the myopic wrath of her Twitter (and real-life) detractors. The most dramatic Catt gets is in her description of herself as \u201cshaking and super-alert\u201d in response to Paul\u2019s drunken anger. But even this intensity is quickly smothered by logistical information: \u201cShe was catching the plane up to Oakland early the next morning. In eight more days she\u2019d start the long drive up to Balsam, where, god willing, she\u2019d finish the Acker biography by the first week of September. And she had to finish it then because once the pilot dropped in late August she\u2019d be too busy to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While in many ways this is a novel about aspirations, class, and addiction, it is most of all a novel that considers the opacity of human nature. We are composed of plans and facts: accumulated data that, on paper, have an aching lack of causality. A dossier on each of us exists somewhere. And it can say everything about you, yet reveal nothing. Or it can simply mislead. Like a photo of you with a book you\u2019ve never read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":xj\" class=\"ii gt adO\">\n<div id=\":xi\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><i>Sophie Madeline Dess is a writer. Her story &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7953\/zalmanovs-sophie-madeline-dess\">Zalmanovs<\/a>&#8221; appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of <\/i>The Paris Review<i>.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKraus is interested in words that mislead, in facts that point in various directions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68386],"tags":[8960,67827],"class_list":["post-171695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-reviews-review","tag-chris-kraus","tag-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fall Books: On Chris Kraus\u2019s 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