Et j'ai toujours du mal à me détacher de ses autres livres, je m'attends toujours à un certain degré de hardcore, d'histoires crues. As a result, she struck me as quite ignorant about what the *actual* issues at hand are.I like Despentes' directness, anger, and energy. This, however, isn't a manhating pamphlet, for Despentes ideas of gender equality concern all sexes, and she argues for a liberation of men as well - we're all trapped in this partiarchial system, after all.I am sad to say this wasn't for me. Instead, I felt li.I am sad to say this wasn't for me. The strongest sections are the ones in which she discusses her personal experiences with sexual violence and sex work, but even there, a lot of generalisations are made about how women respond to these things, which i feel does a great disservice to the multitudinous ways in which women cope with the patriarchy. This could be a good beach or airport read for anyone wanting to pass some time without having to read anything deep.Ce qui est vraiment bien avec Despentes, c'est que plus le temps passe, plus ses livres sont bons. Et j'ai toujours du mal à me détacher de ses autres livres, je m'attends toujours à un certain degré de hardcore, d'histoires crues. Pauline hatches a new scheme, taking on her dead sister’s identity, inhabiting her apartment, and reading her emails—slowly realizing the cost of femininity is to dazzle on the outside while rotting on the inside.Be the first to ask a question about Pretty Things.Welcome back. L’une est rebelle et renfermée, l’autre est une pin-up ambitieuse. The Guardian said of her, "Despentes has a compassion and a comic timing that Houellebecq lacks," and when she's at her best I'm inclined to agree. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is,“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. "Pro-maternity" propaganda has rarely been so extreme. Dat verhoogt de dramatiek enkel meer.Alors, tout d’abord, quelque chose d’inexcusable, c’est le language, le français utilisé dans cet ouvrage. I appreciated this slim book of punk feminist theory, even though I didn't always agree with her conclusions. I applaud Despentes for her energetic, combative style; even in the few places I didn't agree with her, I read the first third of this book in a flurry. Los buenos narradores usan el verbo y la elipsis y Despentes se desliza con ellos sobre tu mente, manejándolos con verdadera maestría.I like her writing style and some of the satirical observations, but I think her Vernon Subutex books are far better.Durante el primer tercio o más del libro la autora estaba consiguiendo caerme tan mal como Houellebeq y por la misma razón: la falta de empatía con el mundo mundial. Download one of the Free Kindle apps to start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer.To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.Deux soeurs jumelles, deux personnalités opposées : Claudine et Pauline n’ont pas grandi de la même façon et les adultes qu’elles sont devenues n’ont rien pour s’entendre. Virginie Despentes dresse ici le portrait d’une femme écartelée entre deux choix de vie : compromission ou radicalité. J’ai adoré.Virginie Despentes is a french modern author, a rare that I really like reading. I suppose the first thing to say is that I do not agree with the majority of what Virginie Despentes writes here. i find myself wanting to quote her all day all the time. In order to navigate out of this carousel, please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.If I had a twin, we would switch places...When Pauline's identical twin sister dies, she doesn't think twice about taking over her life. She seemed to be arguing against the anti-porn movement as it is from a prudish / conservative standpoint as opposed to tackling it from the perspective of many feminists who are bothered by much more than the mere fact that women are taking off their clothes. "What women have endured is not only the history of men, but also their own specific oppression.",Wow. L'écriture au début m'a fatiguée, mais je m'y suis habituée. When her debut novel Baise-moi was published in 1993, Virginie Despentes was hailed as ‘the pioneer of a new genre of feminist literature which has seized the sexual act as its own territory’. And for the most.Was introduced to this book on a road trip from the southern tip of Spain to Madrid, during which the roof of our car flew off and my friend shouted in Spanish the first pages of this to the other three passengers, whose heads had been swaddled in scarves to combat the wind. Despentes is fierce and unapologetic, and I found myself agreeing with a lot of what she had to say. Claudine, the promiscuous, desirable woman eager to employ her sexuality and good looks to get ahead in life, at whatever cost. This is the currency she pays with, this is the value she extracts from men. Pauline en Claudine zijn tweelingzussen, erg verschillend nochtans, al blijkt dat minder zo te zijn dan zijzelf (en iedereen) dachten. It's very difficult to find English translations of her work in Belgium. » Cette allure qu'elle a, jambes sublimées, silhouette transformée. This is more of a rant based on the author's own personal experiences. J'ai déjà lu différents ouvrages d'elle, à différentes époques de ma vie, qu'elle a elle-même écrits à différentes époques de sa vie. Later, though. No Kindle device required. And female desire is subject to the same distortion: it must only occur via the male gaze" yet never addresses the problems that may or may not cause. Pauline, the shoddy, but secretly talented woman who sneers at Cla,This was my third time reading Virginie Despentes and it was exactly what I expected: sexy, darkly funny, and covertly smart. August 15th 2018 I'll start with all the women and then all the men, especially the ones who don't want to read it, because they're the ones who need it the most. As children Claudine's behaviour with a puppy could be seen as foreshadowing for her future relationship with men: she locks it away, beats it when it whines, locks it away again to see if it's learnt its lesson, then showers it with affection. This is a strong, angry, fierce, direct, raw and unapologetic piece of feministic writing - it totally captured me, its passion really got me.