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Winner, Prix Médicis, Prix des Prix, France, 2013The French title of Men plays on a quote by Marguerite Duras: ````We have to love men a lot. A lot, a lot. Love them a lot in order to love them. Otherwise it’s impossible, we couldn’t bear them.‘With her characteristic intensity, edginess & humour, Marie Darrieussecq explores female desire, what it means to be a woman. Solange was a provincial teenager in All the Way; now in her thirties, she’s not a great mother, is a mediocre actress, but in Hollywood she falls for a charismatic actor, Kouhouesso, who wants to direct a movie of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness—in Africa. He’s black; she’s white—what’s the difference when it comes to love, she wonders?Solange follows her man to Africa, determined to play a main role in both his film & his affections. But nothing goes to plan in this brilliantly droll examination of romance, movie-making & clichés about race relations. After all, there’s no guarantee you’ll be loved by the one you love.Personal & political, passionate & engaged, Men is a novel that will make you see things differently.°°° Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969 & is recognised as one of the leading voices of

Who reads Men: A Novel of Cinema and Desire?

Author

Marie Darrieussecq, Penny Hueston (translation)

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781911231028

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, World Fiction