Claudine, the promiscuous, desirable woman eager to employ her sexuality and good looks to get ahead in life, at whatever cost. Fucking marvellous.One hundred sixty pages that blew my mind. Using her own experiences of rape, prostitution, and working in the porn industry as a.With humor, rage, and confessional detail, Virginie Despentes--in her own words "more King Kong than Kate Moss"--delivers a highly charged account of women's lives today. Wanneer Claudine sterft, zet Pauline het "eenmalige" van plaats verwisselen voort en gaat ze, met een duidelijk doel voor ogen, het leven leiden van haar zus om datgene wat z.In dit boek maken we alweer kennis met de harde, cynische, egoïstische, materialistische, nihilistische, utilitaire wereld waarin Virginie Despentes haar personages wel vaker laat rondlopen. J'avais adoré et vu de nombreuses fois le film et j'ai adoré retrouver l'univers. i find myself wanting to quote her all day all the time. I didn't fully agree with her arguments regarding porn, however, which seemed too simplistic.

The other takes her identity to forge a singing career, discovering things about the dead girl she didn't really know (e.g.her participation in a porno film). During their father's long departure the girls hit puberty, and for Pauline it seems like overnight the twins' roles change: Claudine blossoms into a shiny, pretty thing and Pauline, forever the favourite, feels snubbed and like the world has gone crazy for showering love and attention on the forsaken twin. Likewise to simplistic Freudian reversals like these: "Men are happy to believe that what women love best is to seduce and unsettle them. And it does so without calling it so or without stating anywhere that this is the key idea supported by the book, until it gets to the last chapter. Pretty Things sets forth the quest to become the perfect woman by twins Claudine and Pauline. L'écriture au début m'a fatiguée, mais je m'y suis habituée. It's very difficult to find English translations of her work in Belgium. C'est entre effroi et amusement. C'est la première fois qu'elle comprend, qu'en fait aucune fille n'est comme ça.”,BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2019),The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2018 Book Preview,Best Translated Book Award for Fiction 2019.

Pretty Things sets forth the quest to become the perfect woman by twins Claudine and Pauline. I think she has a tendency to generalize based on her own anecdotal experiences and that her view can be a bit narrow even as she criticizes mainstream society for generalizing and pigeonholing women. She explodes common attitudes about sex and gender, and shows how modern beauty myths are ripe for rebelling against. I would have liked to have had a bigger, better constructed argument and analysis along with her experiences.
Later, though. Mais, le temps a passé, les réseaux sociaux et le militantisme se sont développés depuis. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is,“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Instead, I felt like it was a thing in within itself, never really contributing that much to the conversation other than it being a testimony.A disappointing read. Pauline, the shoddy, but secretly talented woman who sneers at Claudine’s lifestyle and complicity in her own degradation. » Cette allure qu'elle a, jambes sublimées, silhouette transformée. Because of this, this book provided me with some very concise thinking points on some of the main topics within the feminist movement, how they came to be, how they are taken into account in our societies, the role of both men and women, the role of class and ideology. C'est peut-être tous ces décalages qui font que, tantôt j'adore ce qu'elle fait, tantôt je ne comprends vraiment pas l'engouement général.I give 2.5 stars.