The comedy success

Claudine and Nicolas met at a cafe in Paris. She is a starlet him, besides being a good friend, serves as confidant. Claudine has a twin sister named Pauline, to the very different personality from his. If Claudine has a very keen sensibility often marked by melancholy phases, Pauline instead has a strong character. One and the other, moreover, are equipped with a physical "bimbos".

One day, while listening Nicolas is a musical arrangement of its composition to Claudine, the latter has the idea to blackmail her sister in her place and to invite him to ask his voice above "- I really like her voice, there is way to do nice things ... "Moreover, Claudine plans to play on their twinning to ensure its status as a public woman and to believe her singing qualities. Pauline accept the agreement and, thanks to his talent, the registration is successful. The imposture still will turn the expense of the young starlet who can not bear the ascension of his sister under his own label, the Claudine in this case, and commits suicide by défenestrant ...

Virginie Despentes proposes, through this novel, a story which is based on identity fraud in the context of the Paris show business. The author of King Kong Theory and Fuck me, among others, raises the issue of alienating consequences that may result such that the individual likely to please them. The twinning is a way for Virginie Despentes to treat the subject with humor and cynicism by staging two sisters who are alike as physical. Pauline, unlike Claudine, is played from the world of show with opportunism. She knows how to use the circumstances as an artist, to the point of transmuting his rise to success in vaudeville and true to his false identity ontological spring that allows him a total self-fulfillment: "She likes to hostility that it triggers in a lot of people [...] She feels bearer of such hatred that it also gets off when the insult. "Finally, the author out in a jubilant language, without a priori and deeply rooted in the social reality of the performing arts, a language consisting in the art not to be taken seriously.