Marie Gicquel 10:38 a.m., August 17, 2022
Virginie Despentes is making a comeback.
This Wednesday, August 17, the successful author will be in bookstores again, five years after the publication of the last volume of "Vernon Subutex", with a new novel with a particularly biting title, "Dear asshole".
This latest book explores the evils that plague our society, from social networks to feminicides.
This is the event of this literary season.
This Wednesday, August 17, the best-selling author Virginie Despentes returns to bookstores, five years after the publication of the last volume by
Vernon Subutex
, with a new novel with a particularly biting title,
Dear asshole.
An epistolary novel
Virginie Despentes concedes this in an interview with
Télérama
.
In this epistolary novel, "not much happens".
Two characters dialogue by interposed letters.
She, Rebecca, is a 50-year-old movie star deemed too old for the industry.
He, Oscar, a failed writer out of inspiration, drives away boredom by vomiting the world on his Instagram account.
Far from being a friend, he is the archetype of the asshole for her and her, the incarnation of a withered plant.
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An incisive and unfussy pen
Little by little, they will abandon this verbal contest to put on the table the evils that plague our society, from feminicides to social networks via the Covid.
Always with her incisive pen, without fuss, Virginie Despentes invites us to get out of our Manichaean visions of the torments of the world and to establish a dialogue far from tensions, which can start with "dear asshole", and end with this sentence: " Sometimes moderation is good.