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Laure, “the happy reader”, contributor to the 20 Minutes
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and blogger, recommends
Cher Connard
by Virginie Despentes, published on August 17, 2022 by Grasset editions.
His favorite quote:
“No, the surprise this time – it was feminists.
And women who do not declare themselves feminists, but who feel concerned.
They are right.
We are all feminized.
Even when we don't like it.
Even when we would prefer it not to concern us.
Femininity is a prison and we take it for life.
Why this book?
Because it's a reading that goes off the beaten track
and holds a major surprise.
A bit vulgar, a bit trashy as they say, the author doesn't have her tongue in her pocket and a formidable pen.
Viriginie Despentes is both singular and plural.
She knows how to handle words in crude language, where there is sometimes only a stream of thoughts.
This is certainly where his art lies.
He shocks, he shakes, but he never leaves anyone indifferent.
Because between the epistolary novel and the societal novel,
Cher Connard
tackles difficult subjects, frontally, without embellishment, especially thanks to the voice of Rebecca: feminism, attacks, the #metoo phenomenon but also addictions like drugs far from to be rock and roll.
An intergenerational common thread, the friendship that saves us from everything and everyone.
Writing has this dynamism that makes you read without pause.
Virginie Despentes pushes us to reflect, a necessary evil.
She writes with an amazing anti-conformist, nothing is politically correct, but everything is divinely good.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Oscar begins a correspondence with Rebecca with whom he was secretly in love when he was younger.
He confides to her that he was “metooized” by Zoé.
Rebecca doesn't care but answers him anyway...
Characters.
Oscar, writer tormented by a case of “Me too”, with Zoé, feminist to the end of her blog, and Rebecca, actress on the return, bitter and lucid.
Places.
Paris.
The time.
Nowadays.
The author.
Virginie Despentes is a writer and director, occasionally a translator and a lyricist.
Free candidate for the baccalaureate, she has done all the trades.
Her luck turned with the publication of
Baise moi
(1994) which sold more than 40,000 copies, of which she then made the film adaptation.
This book was read with the idea that
friendship can come to the rescue of ultra feminism.
This novel can disturb but also create a real tidal wave in a society that is drifting.
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