French Writer Virginie Despentes on Fame, Feminism, the Joy of Punk Rock—and the Final Volume of Her Bestselling Trilogy

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'I want to be crystal clear: I’m not here to make excuses, I’m not here to bitch. I wouldn’t swap places with anyone because being Virginie Despentes seems to me a more interesting gig than anything else out there.'

Your books seem very distinctly of a time and place. How much are we missing if we don’t live, or haven’t lived, in Paris, or aren’t familiar with the culture of the moment in France?was actually written out of my immersion in American theory and American feminism, American authors—Annie Sprinkle, Carol Queen; all the process feminists that helped me and interested me.

To be clear: When you say “such things,” you’re talking about being raped. You write in the book about that, and about your reaction to it which, at the time, seemed unusual, or provocative: While the traditional feminist response to that, as you’ve noted, is to frame it in terms of being violated, being changed forever, irrevocably traumatized, you elected to view the experience within the prism of war, or battle—and you seemed determined, above all, to move on.

There are two sides for me: He is the nice white guy; he’s very childish, which I kind of like in my mates. But you know that it’s not a good time for him. What I liked about Vernon as I was writing about him is that he’s not judgmental. He confronts a lot of situations and a lot of people, and he’s not an idiot—he sees things—but he’s never judgmental.

 

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