Johnny Depp, Virginie Despentes, Joan of Arc… our recap of the week

Johnny Depp Virginie Despentes Joan of Arc… our recap of

Hello, inveterate reader! This week, if storms are raging everywhere, in the cinema it is Johnny Depp who is coming back in force while Elton John or Virginie Despentes are also in the spotlight. On the cinema side, Johnny Depp returns in the odor of holiness in Hollywood since the actor, who emerged victorious from … Read more

Virginie Despentes in search of reconciliation with “Dear asshole”, her luminous new novel

Virginie Despentes in search of reconciliation with Dear asshole her

Virginie Despentes, in Paris, before the announcement of the winner of the Goncourt prize, November 4, 2019. DOMINIQUE FAGET / AFP The title slaps, it’s made for. Dear asshole… The expression will perhaps join “obscure clarity” and “deafening silence” among the famous examples illustrating what an oxymoron is, this “figure of speech combining two words … Read more

“Dear asshole”, by Virginie Despentes: friendship and politics

Dear asshole by Virginie Despentes friendship and politics

[Rentrée littéraire 2022] It is one of the most awaited texts of this literary season; the author and director Virginie Despentes is publishing, five years after the last volume of Vernon Subutexa new novel. Revealed to the general public and to critics by his first novel fuck me (Florent Massot, 1994) – which she adapted … Read more