By Monique Wittig
ISBN-10: 0913780154
ISBN-13: 9780913780152
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Monique Wittig’s first novel. The Opoponax, is set lady as lady. advised thoroughly from contained in the brain of a Catholic schoolgirl, it lays naked the violence of the woman underworld.
Wittig relentlessly information the buildings which kill girls’ spirit: the quick skirts that go away their thighs bare to assaults from boys with switches; the flimsy underpants that tear in the course of play, exposing their vulvas; and the Catholic Church that sternly teaches them to be passive. The Church is sort of mocked through the video games the women play in the course of its solemn rituals.
Catherine Legrand, a budding guérillère, refuses to renounce her violence. She beats up attackers and includes a knife in an open palm. She makes alliances with women like herself; the symbols of those alliances are snakes and poems and weapons. She writes in her copybook:
I am the Opoponax.The Opoponax, darkish shadow which has no definition within the fabric global, is rebellion.
"It is a amazing and intensely vital publication since it is ruled through a unmarried iron rule: that's, to exploit not anything yet natural description conveyed by means of only goal language. A masterpiece." —Marguerite Duras
"I shall not really be there to witness it, yet in ten or two decades you will discover what a author now we have venerated here." Natalie Sarraute on the awarding of the Prix Medici.
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Reine Dieu crawls to the highway. Mademoiselle turns her back on her. Catherine Legrand catches up with her. Reine Dieu and Catherine Legrand hide behind the chapel. You are reading whole sentences aloud out of the book. Mademoiselle is sitting in the wicker chair behind the big desk which comes all the way to the floor so you can’t see her legs. She is reading from the same book as yours. Denise Baume is repeating a sentence. Helene Corte has already read this sentence but she could not finish it.
You leave her sitting down. As you go down the steps you can hear her crying loudly. I? J l Veine Dieu is at the blackboard. She is mak ing a mess of her multiplication. The board is behind Mademoiselle’s platform, so that Mademoiselle turns halfway around in her chair and twists her neck to watch her. From the side you can see her bun and half of her glasses, one of the steel rims with glass in it. The frame is hooked behind her ear. You can see it clearly because her hair is pulled back by the bun.
Veronique Legrand has blond hair that is al most white. She runs ahead on the path, you can see her knees touch her chin when she jumps. And her hair bounces above her forehead. You stop to make weewee because nobody is around. You squat down. You watch thejarme make patterns in the dust, the little golden \fills imn around islands, then disappear under the thick leaves that look like rhubarb. Big flies buzz by. Veronique Legrand says, W hat is meat made of. It is made of the stuff in your nose, all the nasty 30 things that are found in noses.
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