by Virginie Despentes · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253087540
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«Les Jolies choses» is the novel by French writer Virginie Despentes, published in paperback by Le Livre de Poche (320 pages, in French).
The novel pits two twin sisters, Claudine and Pauline, with opposite personalities against each other: one is rebellious and reserved; the other, an ambitious pin-up. Virginie Despentes portrays a woman divided between two life choices, compromise and radicalism, and asks whether it is possible to reconcile two extremes that everything seems to separate.
The work was originally published in 1998, the year it received the Prix de Flore, and in 2001 Gilles Paquet-Brenner adapted it for film with Marion Cotillard and Stomy Bugsy.
For readers of contemporary French literature and for those seeking a novel about female identity and ambition.
Virginie Despentes is a French author, screenwriter, director, and actress. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions.
