Virginie Despentes was born in June 1969 in France and is a writer and filmmaker. In her work, she attempts to explore the boundaries of lewdness/depravity seeking to act as an antidote to today’s political correctness. Her heroes are usually transgressive, self-destructive, desperate, reject. She was a member of the Goncourt Academy from January 2016 until her resignation in January 2020; she is one of the most popular writers in France. Vernon Subutex’s trilogy was shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018. She has written the novels Baise-moi (1993), Les jolies choses (1998), Teen Spirit (2002), Buy buy blondie (2004), King Kong Théorie (2006), και Apocalypse bébé (2010) which was was awarded the Renaudot prize. The novels of Baise-moi (1998) and The Theory of King Kong (2008) have been published in Greek.
Virginie Despentes was born in June 1969 in France and is a writer and filmmaker. In her work, she attempts to explore the boundaries of lewdness/depravity seeking to act as an antidote to today’s political correctness. Her heroes are usually transgressive, self-destructive, desperate, reject. She was a member of the Goncourt Academy from January 2016 until her resignation in January 2020; she is one of the most popular writers in France. Vernon Subutex’s trilogy was shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018. She has written the novels Baise-moi (1993), Les jolies choses (1998), Teen Spirit (2002), Buy buy blondie (2004), King Kong Théorie (2006), και Apocalypse bébé (2010) which was was awarded the Renaudot prize. The novels of Baise-moi (1998) and The Theory of King Kong (2008) have been published in Greek.
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After the triumph of Vernon Subutex‘s trilogy, Virginie Despentes makes a significant return with these ultra-modern Dangerous Relationships. This novel is a tale of fury and consolation, anger and acceptance, where friendship is stronger than human frailties.
Paris may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! Virginie Despentes’s epochal trilogy ends with Vernon Subutex 3―in fire, blood, and even forgiveness. But not everyone will survive to see the dawning of the golden age of Subutex.
In the second part of the bold, blasphemous trilogy by Virginie Despentes we find, around the now homeless, central hero, many characters that make up the colorful mosaic of the Parisian fringe.
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.
