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Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation

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No one talked in there, they all screamed, sang, drooled, ate on all fours and that kind of thing. We had fun." Dominique Carlini Versini, Figures de l'excès chez Marie Darrieusssecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van: Ecrire et filmer le corps-frontière, Brill, 2023.

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A craving for life sent shivers through me, engulfed me; it was like wild boars galloping in my brain, lightning streaking through my sinews, something that came from the depths of the wind, from the most ancient bloodlines. I felt in the very fibers of my being the anguish of the dinosaurs, the tenacity of coelacanths, and knowing that these big fishes were still alive impelled me to go on- I don’t know how to explain it now, and I don’t know any more how I know all that. In 2013, she wrote in a chronicle in the newspaper Libération: "We don’t know what will remain of us, once we live on a planet without wild animals. When what is missed is missed to the extent that its name is no longer known, even the hollow form can no longer be felt, and we lose a part of ourselves, we become more stupid, compact and less labile. Less animal, one could say. [15]" The episode features Fairy Dust orbs. If they are destroyed, everything near the orbs is moved in a short time. These would be later featured in the Bunny Business Tournament and appear in the other tournaments since then. France culture, Les Masterclasses, Marie Darrieussecq: "J'accepte que l'écriture soit un état de transe légère", July 2018 Her first husband was a mathematician and her second is an astrophysicist. Darrieussecq has three children.Video L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze avec Claire Parnet, "La lettre A comme Animal" 1988-1989: https://rutube.ru/video/32c16357d8ac99eee2383959b0a09d0f/ The body's relationship to excess and deficiency, outrageousness and disappearance, is a major theme in her work. She says she writes: "for the body and towards the body, within the meaning of what doesn’t speak inside us. [10]" Ghosts wander through all her books, the disappearance of a man, a child or a world. Darrieussecq explores zones of silence and the unsaid: "Putting words on what has no words, where words do not yet exist, or do not exist anymore. [11]" I have a long history with the Basque language, one that is conflictive, difficult and rich. I owe a lot to this language I don’t speak, but that is strictly speaking my mother tongue, and my grandmothers’ tongue on both sides. French is my writing language and usual speaking language, but my family was indeed tri-lingual: Basque, Spanish and French." Darrieussecq, during a conference at Donostia (Saint Sébastien) Donostia, 2016, European Capital of Culture, 13 Decembre 2016, published in the trilingual collective.

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Marie Darrieussecq, conférence Zaharoff 2016, Oxford: https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2016/11/03/zaharoff-lecture-2016-marie-darrieussecq Some reviewers describe the subject as a cliché, one in very bad taste for that matter, which is way too shallow and reductive. In my humble opinion this book is not about 'women being treated like meat in a consumerist men's world', but rather about women seeing themselves as meat and behaving accordingly. That's quite different, isn't it?

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In fact the author is not too fond of subtlety, since the protagonist of her 1996 novel is a not-so-brilliant Parisian girl working in a perfumery/massage parlour/brothel as a shop assistant (whose functions range from selling cosmetics to prostitution, mostly at the same time) who ends up turning into a sow. The narrative of the book starts as a staunch critique of the misogyny prevalent in our society but soon it shifts to a calmer and more subtle approach, which of course does have regular doses of contrasting feminist elements to keep the vigor alive, and moves towards adopting a holistic approach about the bleakness of human existence. And we feel that it touched upon the usual features of a Kafkaesque world. The narrator, who is devoid of any name/ reference or anything or everything, of book, takes you through the account of her unusual life, in which she is being treated as an object of desire as if she does not have being of her own and lives on the mercy of those whose desires she has to fulfill. She moves from man to man, only to find that all are the same, gradually it corrupts her too as we see that our habits take better of our conscience, with time. This ‘civilized’ society is based upon her bodily features (satires our concept of beauty with acerbic wit) and gradually condemns her to nothingness- she is robbed of even her inauthentic, commodified existence- as soon as her bodily features start to betray her. Darrieussecq's writing is characterized by its precision, concision and clarity; nervous, rhythmic, using an internal prosody, often in octosyllables or in blank verse. Her minimalist style, full of anecdotes and scientific or geographical metaphors, serves a "physical form of writing", [23] close to "writing as sensation", [24] an expression she keyed for Nathalie Sarraute. Es inevitable comparar el paralelismo entre esta novela y «La metamorfosis» de Kafka en la que el protagonista, una mañana se despierta convertido en una enorme cucaracha. Siendo este último una obra maestra de la literatura y sin querer quitarle mérito, pienso que Marie ha hecho un gran trabajo.

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