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"A sticky, smashed, sweaty, laughing too loud, broken teeth, drunker than drunk adventure" from the filmmaker and author of the Vernon Subutex novels (Bust Magazine). Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. 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. "Pure payback . . . subversive and exhilarating."--Elle "Fuses triple-X porno, New Wave abandon, and feminist revenge fantasy . . . Risky and different."--The Mercury News "A small revolution."--L.A. Weekly "An underground favorite that will be talked about for years."--Female FYI… (more)
literature is so absent of characters like these--gross, banal, irritable, violent, utterly depraved WOMEN, bursting w/ desire, devoid of motive. a woman in a novel is supposed to mean something--stand for the world & what it denies us & so it is so good so refreshing 2 read pure vice--a trip thru the nauseating whiskey & chocolate on an empty stomach feeling these characters cant get enuf of. i haven't fell in love w/ a writer so deeply fr so long!!! i am slamming despentes' novels like harry potter during 4th grade summer vacation. all vitriol & chaos but here a meditation on soulmates that makes ur heart ache amidst the bloodshed & vomit. how can u learn 2 hate & love a book so deeply at the same time. on 2 my next despentes novel i cannot be stopped i am a devoted student of despentes in these uncertain times ( )
This is an unusual book in that the main characters are both ruthless murderers. The two women are about as degenerate as conceivable. The end result is that you are not left with a sense of loss when they find their end. Their sexual appetite appears both unusual and perverse. I cannot recommend the book due to the lack of value. The rage of the women is expressed in a random and self-extinguishing manner. It seems illogical but perhaps there are individuals such as the characters in the book. ( )
The sex and violence were definitely a major component of this novel, but the title and back flap made that obvious before reading. There’s a good part of the middle when the author really seems to be saying something about the nature of people but it never amounted to more than a few keen observations. The story moves because the outlaws are moving themselves, so you feel taken along on this adventure, but with two narrators that have essentially given up it’s hard to attach yourself to them. The one thing about the novel that bothered me was Nadine’s character. She definitely felt like an appendage and not a fully fleshed out character. When she’s introduced she seems like Manu, but later she seems weak and pliable then by the end she’s supposed to be the more villainous of the two but I don’t see that development as realistic. Other than that it’s a fun summer read. ( )
Information from the French Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language.
PREMIÈRE PARTIE
Et parce que tu es tiède, et que tu n’es ni chaud ni froid, je te vomirai par ma bouche.
FEDOR MIKHAILOVITCH D.
Ma mère m’avait dit que j’étais fait pour l’amour Je ne connais que le sexe et même pas tous les jours.
SALE DEF.
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Chapitre premier
Assise en tailleur face à l’écran, Nadine appuie sur « Avance rapide » pour passer le générique. C’est un vieux modèle de magnétoscope, sans télécommande. [...]
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Information from the German Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language.
"A sticky, smashed, sweaty, laughing too loud, broken teeth, drunker than drunk adventure" from the filmmaker and author of the Vernon Subutex novels (Bust Magazine). Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. 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. "Pure payback . . . subversive and exhilarating."--Elle "Fuses triple-X porno, New Wave abandon, and feminist revenge fantasy . . . Risky and different."--The Mercury News "A small revolution."--L.A. Weekly "An underground favorite that will be talked about for years."--Female FYI
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