Vernon Subutex

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Virginie Despentes: Vernon Subutex (French language, 2015)

French language

Published Sept. 5, 2015

ISBN:
978-2-246-71351-7
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OCLC Number:
907931654

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Vernon Subutex, ancien disquaire à la dérive, ne peut guère compter que sur Alex Bleach pour l'aider à payer ses factures. Quand celui-ci meurt d'overdose, Vernon est expulsé de son appartement parisien et doit se faire héberger à droite et à gauche, sans se douter que tout le monde le recherche afin de mettre la main sur la vidéo que lui a laissée la pop star avant de mourir. Prix Anaïs Nin 2015.

As if she were a manic, female counterpart to Michel Houellebecq, Virginie Despentes's novels overflow with violence, second-wave feminism, and restlessness to the point of mania. As she declared in her memoir-cum-manifesto, King Kong Theory, "being Virginie Despentes is a more interesting business than anything else going on out there." Her first novel, Baise-moi, was turned into a film full of murderous women and rape; her last novel, Apocalypse bébé (see WLT, Mar. 2011, 60), was shortlisted …

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Leo comentarios muy a favor o muy en contra de este libro. Sinceramente creo que ni es para tanto ni es tan poca cosa. Pero creo que en cómo trata el abanico de personajes que elige para pintar la expulsión de Subutex del 'paraíso' de la clase media europea hay rasgos valiosos. ¿Nadie más ve destellos de Tom Wolfe en este libro?

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