Re: Virginie Despentes --- the female „Rock-’n’-Roll-Zola“

[rich]

i'd recommend seeing Baise-Moi to anyone.
up there with other adult film star performances: Marilyn Chambers in Rabid
(another personal favorite) and Brigitte Lahaie (seeing her dressed as the
angel of death is pretty memorable) in a number of Jean Rollin films

rich

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 9:44 PM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

>
> Earlier this year I uttered here my enthusiasm for the first volume of
> the Vernon Subutex trilogy by Virginie Despentes. In the meantime I also
> read, in the translation of Claudia Steinitz, the other two parts and am
> deeply impressed. While I in general tend to agree with Reich-Ranicki
> that women make great poets but not so good novelists, the trilogy of
> Madame Despentes is doubtlessly mind blowing & sublime. For me her
> skills can be recognized best in the masterful way she manages to keep
> kinda equidistance to her characters which are never ever idealized or
> denunciated (not even the 'evil' ones). And then it's a page-turner! To
> those interested in the current societal changes in continental Europe -
> there are, despite all differences, a lot of parallels between countries
> like France and Germany - this novel trilogy is a must. If you like
> Houellebecq, you will love Despentes too. And if you don't like
> Houellebecq because of his sexism, here's a huge French novel in the
> great tradition of the 19th century by a decided feminist. What are you
> waiting for? Read that!
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/31/virginie-despentes-interview-baise-moi-vernon-subutex
>
> P.S. In the very last chapter of the trilogy there's a passage which
> makes me think that Madame Despentes does know "The Crying of Lot 49",
> which is the reason why this mail is not marked as (np).
>
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