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Read PDF L. Surprise PETS! Despentes riffs at times in courageous streams of consciousness, or lengthy single sentence poetry such as the wonderful finale.
This is sublime, succinct writing that makes the reader want to cheer at each display of unerring precision. Despentes also departs from the conventional storytelling arc and creates an episodic journal that feels like viewing dysfunctional Paris through a hallucinogenic kaleidoscope. The sense of a thrilling high is further enhanced by the audacious or even invented, often onomatopoeic, words that spring from the pages: sucky-fucky, Zblam, outer fuckwittery, lug, fucktard, blatherskite.
Some of this energy may be rendered through the translating skills of Frank Wynne who seems to bring an Irish dexterity with language to the final text. Whether it be Despentes or Wynne or both, it certainly felt as though somebody had been reading James Joyce lately. Subtly, the author weaves threads of humanity into the text that start to relieve the relentless brutality of it all.
Vernon loves and loses for the first time, the Hyena forms quasi-maternal bonds with the daughter of a porn-star she once knew, Patrice speaks openly and with considerable insight about his wife-beating, Sophie grieves for her drug addict son, and the scene where two dog lovers mourn their lost companions moved even this non-pet-owning reader.
Despentes has achieved a minor miracle. This reader has changed her mind. All is not lost in the current millennium. Dark, uncertain, out of control maybe, but not lost.
Whilst there is originality and freshness such as is displayed in this striking book, whilst writing like this can marry poetry and profanity, and tenderness can still be found in the midst of virtual reality, there is a future. Like Vernon, this reader had been sinking into nostalgia and finding aging tough. She is delighted that this is the first in a trilogy. She wants more text, more Vernon; she wants it on film, in colour.
It would be a triumph for the energy and unpredictability of the interesting times in which we live and for brave and truthful modern storytelling if the panel of the International Booker Prize felt the same. Vernon Subutex 1: review With the untimely drug-related death of his benefactor Alex Bleach, Vernon Subutex discovers that a massive stone has been dropped into the quiet waters of his self-absorbed life.
The ripples are the subject matter of the book. His peripatetic adventures in Paris provide the framework for a series of individual cameos bringing together the backstories of these characters and their present life-styles.
A mosaic of contemporary attitudes is revealed through this ever-shifting cast of players. Most have sacrificed their former wild Punk era selves, full of youthful idealism and free of social constraint, to settle for more sedate middle-aged compromises and social inclusion. Career ambitions, often ruthless individualism and the growing commodification of relationships cast an unflattering light on the dominant attitudes of contemporary society.
Sex, drugs, alcohol are an ingrained way of life, though not necessarily pleasurable. Poverty and homelessness are experiences on the streets.
Subutex remains locked in his past, has remained true to his early values and refuses to sacrifice his freedom and individuality, whereas others become disturbing projections of their flawed selves. He continues to reject the trappings of society, asserts his freedom, defines himself as he chooses.
It is his existential choice. The development of the story is constantly engaging. Though Subutex frames the narrative, a traditional protagonist- centred plot trajectory is replaced by a postmodern, seemingly chaotic structure of loosely interconnecting characters and events. The use of Facebook messages in this becomes a key dynamic.
Subutex has valuable interview tapes with Alex which constitute a filmic McGuffin. Subutex is a much sought-after individual: he has commercial value. The narrative threads morph and overlap constantly in interchanging planes of time and space. The text is rich in shifting points of view, refractions through subjectivities and reality distortions fuelled by drugs and alcohol.
This verbal fragmentation and reconfiguration aligns itself with an innovative literary Cubism. Initially this development stimulates and surprises at every turn before the sense of a checklist of emblematic characters and given situations begins to dominate.
So… we have had the male chauvinist, the ruthless career woman, the sexual predator, the porn stars, the lesbian, now the inevitable trans, the violent wife abuser, now the right-wing thugs, then left wing idealist, the suspected Islamist extremist.
The aim of offering a panorama of her chosen sector contemporary French society and associated attitudes is clearly a challenge and one which Despentes , for the most part, achieves through believable shifts. Throughout, she anchors the narrative in the dominant music of the day, drawing on her experience of the world of media. The style is playful and witty in its record of this age.
The wide use of street language, puns and satirical, humorous accounts of outrageous individuals and situations are a delight. Simone de Beauvoir finds a presence, too. Despite the representation of the selfish and antisocial in humanity, there emerges a clear empathy for the outsiders to convention with examples of kindness, tenderness and solidarity with the hapless and the oppressed. That said, the spirit of the original is captured wonderfully through this gifted recreation in the modern idiom.
This picaresque tale unfolds with Vernon Subutex waking up early, to gaze out of the window to watch others working the six o'clock shift. This sums up Vernon's approach to life: to watch it and wait, do little for himself, see what happens next, and hope someone can help him out when things go wrong.
Before the end of the first page we learn that he has no food, no coffee, no cigarettes, very little money, his phone contract has lapsed, his unemployment benefit has been stopped, but he still has internet.
He is careful that whatever else happens, his monthly payments for this luxury are met. Vernon needs the internet to watch porn or to "bum around Despite being lazy and useless Vernon is a likeable, easy going relaxed sort of guy who wins over his various friends and the reader too.
We have empathy for him particularly because he is down on his luck. Like the reader Vernon doesn't know where he's heading and what's going to happen next, and that is the hook which keeps the reader interested.
We meet the characters from his earlier years, and follow him around as he moves from place to place and situation to situation having been evicted from his flat, another of his failures due to his not facing up to things. However, for all his roguish charm Vernon, like Paris itself, has a perverted core when it comes to his treatment of women.
He has always slept around, used and abused and dumped his girlfriends, but there is something altogether vicious in his wanting to "unceremoniously fuck" this girl who is half his age, "up the arse" and "push up her jumper to see her childish tits squashed against the table" and wanting to hear her 'whimpers' should he threaten to withdraw.
The female of his masochistic desires referred to in this situation is Celeste who he has met only briefly. The search is on when word gets out that Vernon has video footage of an important, possibly the last, interview of the famous singer Alex Bleach. This is the second hook. No one knows what is on the tapes least of all Vernon who fell asleep when the recordings were being made, and was too apathetic to bother to find out afterwards, despite that Bleach up until his death had been Vernon's benefactor.
You would think that he might care a little about what his friend was saying at the last. Vernon, true to his character is oblivious to the Facebook pursuit of him, as he carries on about his daily business. Perhaps this is the parallel of the general public's oblivion to the sleazy underground happenings on the busy streets of Paris. The writer brings to the forefront in all their naked ugly glory the various groups of Parisian society, who overlap and co-exist. Prostitution, sex-slavery, drugs, porn, right wing racism, homelessness, sadomasochism, transgender, domestic violence, cyber attacking of personalities, lesbianism, immigration, bulimia, politics of the music and film industries are just a few of the themes explored through the various and many characters.
Despentes illustrates an amazingly wide and deep knowledge of up-to-the-minute issues affecting modern societies. Perhaps the down side of the book, and which makes for taxing reading, is that in an attempt to include everything, the story has too many characters, most of whom are extremes in their individual behaviours, and are generally despicable and dislikeable - everyone of them with an untold story, itself needing further exploration. Or it may just be that we meet each new individual, but only learn their back story further along when it crosses paths with yet another unfamiliar character.
Possibly they will reappear later on in the trilogy, and will make for a richer tapestry. The unconvincing character of Deborah a. She once was fat, then she was thin, she had breast augmentation, later she had a mastectomy.
It all turns out right in true Hollywood style when she changes from being an obese 'lump of fat' to something so exquisite that "she couldn't walk into a room without people thinking about sex. Drugs, tattoos and then a sex change, now She He Daniel is a stylish, designer-clothes wearing, successful Regional Manager of a profitable fake cigarette business; fake being the metaphor for Daniel himself.
Here is the Dickensian ending: Daniel can't just be a shop assistant; he has to be the slick regional manager with lots of money. He knows what a woman wants from sex, having had it done to him by 'the finest stallions', and as a man he knows how to fulfil a woman. He is now a back-slapping man friend. Everyone loves Daniel. He loves women, and best of all "Daniel is in love with Pam" his very best friend.
He's also good in the kitchen, which is handy because Pam "never really cared about housework. Could she, he, they, be more perfect? DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed.
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