Tag: Despentes
Virginie Despentes’ novel “Dear Asshole” at the Schauspielhaus Zurich – Culture
In the darkness of the stage in the Pfauen, the red velvet venue of the Zurich Schauspielhaus, a face lights up. Illuminated by the light from her cell phone, Magda…
Radio play “Dear Asshole” based on the bestseller by Virginie Despentes – Media
Dear idiot? No. Love sausage? Neither. Dear asshole? Yes, that’s exactly. That’s what she’ll call him. And compare it to a pigeon pooping on your shoulder as it flies by.…
Virginie Despentes’ “Dear Asshole” – Culture
From Juliana Liebert Every reasonably powerful bon vivant should be put in the MeToo pillory once in his life so that his inner beauty begins to shine. Otherwise he never…
Why the return of Virginie Despentes creates the event
If the 2022 literary season had a face, it would have that of Virginie Despentes. His Dear assholepublished Wednesday by Grasset, seems to eclipse – or at least overshadow –…
“Cher Connard” by Virginie Despentes is far from being a simple novel on #MeToo
DOMINIQUE FAGET / AFP French author Virginie Despentes speaks to the press upon her arrival at the Drouant restaurant in Paris ahead of the announcement of the winner of the…
Virginie Despentes launches a publishing house dedicated to “queer and feminist culture”
A publishing house dedicated to the societal issues of queer and feminist culture. The novelist Virginie Despentes, to whom we owe the successful trilogy Vernon Subutex, Apocalypse Baby, King Kong…