The Promise of Utopia in Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes
The Promise of Utopia in Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes
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维吉妮·德斯彭特斯《弗农·苏布泰克斯》中乌托邦的承诺
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2022
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弗农·苏布特克斯三部曲（2015-17）是女权主义作家兼电影制片人德彭特斯（Kristinie Despentes）的一部内容广泛、政治参与度高、可读性强的作品。[1]这部三部曲开始时，前唱片店老板弗农·苏布特克斯被赶出了他在巴黎的公寓。亚历克斯·漂白，一位经常帮助弗农维持生计的成功音乐家，刚刚去世。当弗农发现自己流落街头时，他名下只有几件财产，包括亚历克斯曾经拍摄自己在弗农公寓里谈话的一些磁带。事实证明，这些录音带受到了几个感兴趣的人的高度追捧;这一次寻找弗农，形成了三部曲第一卷中大部分的阴谋。在第二卷和第三卷中，一旦他们找到了弗农，一群兼收并蓄的人物聚集在他周围：泽维尔，一个失败的编剧和社会保守派;帕梅拉·康德，一个前色情星星;奥尔加，一个激进的左翼无家可归的女人，等等。这些角色一起组织了一系列的聚会，在弗农的DJ布景下，令人费解地变换、恍惚地跳舞。这些夜晚是另一个世界和和谐的，但仍然容易受到暴力的影响：一个名叫Laurent Dopalet的掠夺性电影执行官最终策划了一场大规模枪击事件，其中几乎所有的主要人物都被杀害。2022年《绝望VC》作者。由牛津大学出版社代表法国研究学会出版。
The Vernon Subutex trilogy (2015–17) is a sprawling, politically engaged and highly readable work by the feminist writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes. 1 The trilogy begins just as the eponymous Vernon Subutex, a former record store owner, is evicted from his apartment in Paris. Alex Bleach, a successful musician who often helped Vernon make ends meet, has just died. When Vernon finds himself on the streets, he has only a few possessions to his name, including some tapes on which Alex once filmed himself talking in Vernon’s apartment. These tapes, as it turns out, are highly sought after by several interested parties; this occasions a search for Vernon that forms the bulk of the intrigue in the first volume of the trilogy. In volumes two and three, once they have found Vernon, an eclectic group of characters congregate around him: Xavier, a failed scriptwriter and social conservative; Pamela Kant, a former porn star; Olga, a fiercely left-wing homeless woman, and many more. Together, these characters organize a series of convergences, nights of inexplicably transformative, trance-like dancing to Vernon’s DJ sets. These nights are other-worldly and harmonious but remain vulnerable to violence: a predatory film executive named Laurent Dopalet ultimately orchestrates a mass shooting at a convergence, in which almost almost all the main characters are killed. DespentesVC The Author (s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for French Studies.