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Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of the legendary music shop Revolver, in the Parisian quartier of Bastille. For passionate rockers, Revolver was a temple, the place of their rite of initiation. In the 2000s, with the proliferation of the Internet and the decline of CDs and vinyl, the financial collapse is looks imminent. The shop goes out of business, his unemployment benefit is cut, and the friend who helped him, the famous black singer Alex Bleach, dies from a drug overdose. Thus, Subutex becomes homeless and beggar in the streets of Paris, hanging out with vagrants and confronting right-wing extremist bastards.
Who is Vernon Subutex?
An urban legend.
A fallen angel.
The mirror of us all.
Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of the legendary music shop Revolver, in the Parisian quartier of Bastille. For passionate rockers, Revolver was a temple, the place of their rite of initiation. In the 2000s, with the proliferation of the Internet and the decline of CDs and vinyl, the financial collapse is looks imminent. The shop goes out of business, his unemployment benefit is cut, and the friend who helped him, the famous black singer Alex Bleach, dies from a drug overdose. Thus, Subutex becomes homeless and beggar in the streets of Paris, hanging out with vagrants and confronting right-wing extremist bastards.
Around him, a motley crowd of people who love Rock, coke, and sex: desperate women, freaked-out brokers, porn stars, transgenders from Brazil, ex-musicians trying to survive, internet trolls destroying people and careers…
Vernon Subutex 1 is the first volume of the trilogy.
If Vernon Subutex, talks about the general brutality – economic, social, political – and its effect on individuals, and if, among the heroes of the book, we sense the unusual tenderness that Despentes reserves for the wise and sarcastic Hyena, the author’s approach can be defined as the opposite of the violence radiated by her hero. Vernon Subutex is a novel that makes empathy a fundamental principle of writing and gives all of its characters an opportunity, or at least lets them expose the reasons why they react as they react.
Vernon Subutex is a great book, precisely because it upsets. Virginie Despentes is an energetic writer; she writes with intensity and freedom. In her book, we find her rage and anger again, expressed in hard phrases like stones. We discover an accurate and fair voice that never delineates caricatures.
A social novel, a dark comedy, a rock composition, Vernon Subutex is a mural of modern society, rough and yet soothing, written with striking vigilance and raging humor.
This book conquered me from the first page, and as I was reading it, I was entirely swallowed by it. It was violent and exciting.
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