![]() ![]() ![]() In Baise-moi, I got as far as this description of Nadine’s roommate, Séverine: In 2000, Despentes codirected a film adaptation with Coralie Trinh Thi that starred Karen Bach and Raffaëla Anderson, all three former porn actresses because the sex scenes were unsimulated, the film was hotly controversial and was initially banned in France.īut it wasn’t the violence or the graphic sex that stopped me from reading her work. One has worked as a prostitute, the other as a porn actress in between murders, they have graphically described sex in hotel rooms with a series of men. Much of this reputation rests on her first novel, Baise-moi (1994), a taboo-shattering book about a pair of young women, Nadine and Manu, who go on a killing spree across France. ![]() I was ashamed I worried my discomfort meant I was not as radical a feminist as I fancied myself.ĭespentes is a legend in France, especially among young women. ![]() I smiled weakly whenever she was mentioned. I would squirm under its gaze and soon close it. Three things were made to fit in the palm of your hand: a gun, a bottle, and a dick. -Virginie Despentes, Baise-moiįor a long time, whenever I opened a book by Virginie Despentes, I would feel that instead of me reading it, it was reading me. ![]()
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