Baise-Moi (Rape Me)

Baise-Moi (Rape Me) - Paperback

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Baise-Moi (Rape Me) - Paperback

Baise-Moi (Rape Me) - Paperback

by Virginie Despentes
$18.00
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by Virginie Despentes (Author), Bruce Benderson (Translator)

Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. Now the basis for a hit underground film which was banned in France, Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women on a rampage that is part Thelma and Louise, part Viking conquest. Manu and Nadine have had all they can take. Manu has been brutally raped, and determines it's not worth leaving anything precious lying vulnerable -- including her very self. She teams up with Nadine, a nihilist who watches pornography incessantly, and they enact their own version of les vols et les viols (rape and pillage) -- they lure men sexually, use them up, then rob and kill them. Drawing from the spiky cadences of the Sex Pistols and the murderous eroticism of Georges Bataille or Dennis Cooper, Baise-Moi is a shocking, accomplished, and truly unforgettable novel.

Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.68 x 8.22 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: March 18, 2003
ISBN9780802138705
Author Virginie Despentes
PublisherGrove Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2003
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Virginie Despentes

Virginie Despentes is a writer and filmmaker. She worked in an independent record store in the early 1990s, was a sex worker, and published her first novel, Baise Moi, when she was twenty-three. She adapted the novel for the screen in 2000, codirecting with the porn star Coralie Trinh Thi. Upon release, it became the first film to be banned in France in twenty-eight years. Despentes is the author of more than fifteen other works, including the Vernon Subutex trilogy and King Kong Theory. Frank Wynne has translated the work of many authors, including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frédéric Beigbeder, and the late Ivoirian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. He won the International Dublin Literary Award with Houellebecq for The Elementary Particles.

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