A punk rock autobiography

Enter the Virginia Despentes text is a kind of rhapsody listen to multiple variations whose motto is feminism seen from the perspective of the authentic revolution of a thought which, to put it like André Breton, hears "turn the tide" of machismo exacerbated around which crystallizes all power, from the family to the state's circle.

This is good, she says, to challenge and undermine the foundations of society to finally grant women their status of being free and thinking, and let's talk about power master of his life, his destiny and his art to the equal of a Bruce Lee or Muhammad Ali. "Sometimes she writes for example, it's simple, I feel like Bruce Lee. When he recounted in interviews that all the time, guys were tap him on the shoulder to provoke a duel. They wanted to show to the whole neighborhood they were so strong, they had made Bruce Lee. "

The author defines as a King Kong Girl and claims its share of masculinity, essential to self-fulfillment. Virginie Despentes assumes itself as it is and makes clear the mode of syncope and the burst effect, as many brands of a syntax that goes straight to the point and which borrows most often at language spoken. The sentences are short, incisive and add to the alacrity of the narrative process: "I'm not soft I'm not lovable I am not a bourge. I have mounted hormones that make me like flashes of aggressiveness. If I did not come punk rock, I am ashamed of what I am. No fucking suit that point. But I come from punk rock and I am proud not very well get there. "

In his teens, where she was raped, and its period of prostitution, she keeps the fierce and outspoken nature of a freedman of any individual who is moraline spokesman of left-nots : lesbians, women of the street, the girls of the suburbs, black women, actresses X, women writers and by extension all those who "killed the angel of the home", writes Virginia Woolf she cites as an epigraph to the last part; those women who were able to say no to a point in their lives to the reigning machismo.

"When will the men's emancipation? "Asked she, and respond by highlighting the concept of power that is not the prerogative of man, or the woman, but the fact of the individual who able to build his life by tapping into the resources of his creative will, to put it as Friedrich Nietzsche: "Question of attitude, courage and insubordination. There is a form of force, which is neither masculine nor feminine, impresses, panic, reassuring. An ability to say no, to impose its views, not shirk. "