In this literary season, a title is snapping up in bookstores: Cher Connard, by
Virginie Despentes. A post-metoo epistolary novel, in which a recognized author,accused of harassment by his former press secretary (now recognized feministblogger), confides his incomprehension and his (very annoying) lamentations to agreat actress, on which he s It's okay to write a "funny" (i.e. insulting)Instagram post after seeing her on the street. She reads his text, reacts bywriting to him, he replies by apologizing, she refuses his apologies, he repliesagain, and the correspondence, casually, begins. In her still trashy and veryliterary style, the author of King Kong Theory sets out to experience the scandalalongside the accused. Without ever minimizing his responsibilities, but givingus to read his experience, his feeling of injustice, his absolute lack ofempathy, of questioning himself. Fortunately, as we are in a novel, the characterevolves, thanks to his correspondent and other people who know how to talk to himhonestly, and Despentes' text ends so well that it would be very useful to offerit to all people who keep the reflex to suspect a lie when they are told about awoman who accuses a man.Another book, less noticed, seems to us able to complete the subject. Hommes, byEmmanuelle Richard, takes us into the thoughts of a woman, a successfulbusinesswoman, who one day sees appear in her news feed the face of a man withwhom she has had a history for many years. previously. He is wanted forfeminicide. She is not surprised. It was in another life, another country, shetried to forget what she had been through, this feeling of being trapped, butalso this great desire for him... Throughout the novel, the heroine tries to seeclearly what happened at that moment, wonders if she should testify (but to tellwhat ?) In addition to immersing us in the vagueness that reigns in unhealthy ordangerous situations, the great the strength of the text lies in its way ofexposing very clearly to what point evolving as a woman in a public space is apermanent struggle. How do you build a healthy heterosexual relationship when youspend your life seeing the opposite sex as a danger? How to get out of maledomination ? Is it even possible ? A real plunge, in apnea, into the culture of rape.Melanie (UCL Grand Paris Sud)Emmanuelle Richard, Hommes, L'Olivier, August 2022, 244 pages, 19 euros.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Emmanuelle-Richard-Hommes_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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