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Baise-Moi (Rape Me)
Baise-Moi (Rape Me)
Baise-Moi (Rape Me)
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Baise-Moi (Rape Me)

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“A sticky, smashed, sweaty, laughing too loud, broken teeth, drunker than drunk adventure” from the filmmaker and author of the Vernon Subutex novels (Bust Magazine).

Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. The basis for a hit underground film which was banned in France, Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women on a rampage that is part Thelma and Louise, part Viking conquest.

Manu and Nadine have had all they can take. Manu has been brutally raped and determines it's not worth leaving anything precious lying vulnerable—including her very self. She teams up with Nadine, a nihilist who watches pornography incessantly, and they enact their own version of les vols et les viols (rape and pillage)—they lure men sexually, use them up, then rob and kill them. Drawing from the spiky cadences of the Sex Pistols and the murderous eroticism of Georges Bataille or Dennis Cooper, Baise-Moi is a shocking, accomplished, and truly unforgettable novel.

“Pure payback . . . subversive and exhilarating.”—Elle



“Fuses triple-X porno, New Wave abandon, and feminist revenge fantasy . . . Risky and different.”—The Mercury News


“A small revolution.”—L.A. Weekly


“An underground favorite that will be talked about for years.”—Female FYI
LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 1, 2007
ISBN9780802196071
Baise-Moi (Rape Me)
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Virginie Despentes

Virginie Despentes is a writer and filmmaker. She worked in an independent record store in the early ’90s, was a sex worker, and published her first novel, Baise Moi, when she was twenty-three. She adapted the novel for the screen in 2000, codirecting with the porn star Coralie Trinh Thi. Upon release, it became the first film to be banned in France in twenty-eight years. Despentes is the author of more than fifteen other works, including the Vernon Subutex Trilogy, Apocalypse Baby, Bye Bye Blondie, Pretty Things, and the essay collection King Kong Theory.

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  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
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    No matter what else is in the book, one star for the shooting of a five year old.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This is an unusual book in that the main characters are both ruthless murderers. The two women are about as degenerate as conceivable. The end result is that you are not left with a sense of loss when they find their end. Their sexual appetite appears both unusual and perverse. I cannot recommend the book due to the lack of value. The rage of the women is expressed in a random and self-extinguishing manner. It seems illogical but perhaps there are individuals such as the characters in the book.
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    absolutely fantastic. everybody should read this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    A novel of transgressive power. I suggest you read this book with an open mind.

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