La peur de perdre sa respectabilité, ça, c'est bourgeois. Au sens péjoratif du terme. Dire qu'on est an artiste et vouloir être aimé, ça n'a pas de sens. Je suis actor. If you don't want me, I'm different. I don't feel like I'm privileged to love you plus a big name in a sincérité. Je ne suis pas a soda qu'on cherche à vendre à all les enfants. I don't present myself to a presidential election, because I do have a gagner and seduce the majority of citizens. C'est mon courage d'être sincère que je vends. This is precise, so the plaise is non-existent. Ce qui fait qu'on m'a choisie plutôt qu'une autre pour de grands rôles, ce n'est ni ma plastic ni ma diction. C'est que j'ai le cran de ne pas ressembler à all the world. If there is a risk of disappointment, this is a good part of the job. You don't have to worry about the esprits that you know how to do it. This is not the situation that is becoming impuissant. C'est le flip que tes voisins de palier ne te saluent pas comme un notable. Tu peux invoquer ta naissance et parler du métier de tes parents pour te victimiser et justifier ta faiblesse. Mais on sait l'un comme l'autre que c'est une excuse. Les enfants riches sont comme toi. All the world has faire de la publicité aujourd'hui. C'est-à-dire produire des messages esthétiquement cohérents et qui s'adressent au client qui les commande. Qui se foutent de la vérité. Qui ne veulent que séduire, et jamais déranger personne. You want your art to be part of the series, but you don't have to worry about danger. Ce n'est même pas que ça manque de sang dans les encriers, c'est que vous voulez porter la couronne d'épines du Christ, mais sans vous égratigner le front ni porter la croix. Plus the person is not a favorite of the provocation. Maintenant tout le monde veut être bien vu. All the world is now a good thing. Le fameux débilos au fond de la classe, assis à côté du radiateur, qui dit des conneries pour le plaisir de foutre le bordel, n'est plus une populaire figure. The cancre de Prévert peut all se rhabiller – you don't recognize the language of the company. Sérieux, responsable, you côté de la dignité et you plus large cipher. La seule provocation qu'on supporte, c'est celle qui vient du pouvoir. Mais ce n'est pas marrant quand ça vient d'en haut. Foutre le bordel, c'est rigolo quand t'es a petit rat dégueulasse.
Je viens des années 80 - on se construction toujours dans la décennie dans laquelle on a eu vingt ans - and je peux te dire que c'était la détente la plus totale, à l'époque. This is why you have access to a theory like this, you have to sit down on a chaise to open the voice above and you can also hear something from the audience to find something interesting. C'était la logique inverse de celle des réseaux socials: plus c'était minoritaire, plus ça semblait important. On n'était pas à la pêche aux likes. C'était le contraire: on tenait à être haïs par les cons. It has a charm, too. Profits from this qui t'arrive. It's also interesting to receive the price of the supermarché du coin.
Virginie Despentes Cher Connard (Grasset, 2022).
REBECCA
The fear of losing one's integrity, that's bourgeois. In the pejorative sense. To say you're an artist and want to be loved makes no sense. I'm an actress. If no one loves me, I'll perish. Nevertheless, I've never prioritized the love of most people over my sincerity. I'm not a soft drink you want to sell to all the children. I'm not running for president, which I have to win by appealing to a majority of the electorate. It's my courage to be sincere that I'm selling. To be exactly me, whether people like it or not. What makes me more likely to be chosen for major roles than someone else isn't my plasticity or my diction. It's that I have the courage not to look like everyone else. I take the risk of not being liked; it's part of the job. You can't score points if you're afraid to be who you are. It's not the situation that makes you helpless. It depresses you that your neighbors don't greet you like someone they respect. You can invoke your birth and talk about your parents' professions to portray yourself as a victim and justify your weakness. But we both know that's just an excuse. Rich kids are like you. Everyone wants to do advertising these days. That means producing messages that are aesthetically pleasing and aimed at the customer who orders them. Messages that don't care about the truth. Messages that only seduce and never intend to offend anyone. You want your art to be taken seriously, but you don't want to displease or take any risks. It's not even that there's a lack of blood in the inkwells; it's that you want to wear the crown of thorns without scratching your forehead or carrying the cross. No one is into provocation anymore. Now everyone wants to make a good impression. Everyone wants to be a good student. The famous class clown in the back row, sitting by the radiator and spouting nonsense for the sheer joy of disorder, is no longer a popular figure. Prévert's school dropout is no longer needed—you only recognize the language of business. Serious, responsible, on the side of dignity and the greatest sum. The only provocation we can tolerate is that which comes from power. But it's not funny when it comes from above. Creating chaos is fun if you're a small, disgusting rat.
I come from the '80s—you always lay your foundations in the decade you turned 20—and I can tell you, back then it was total relaxation. As soon as you came up with some crazy theory, you'd hop on a chair to announce it loudly, and there was always someone in the audience who found it interesting. It was the reverse logic of social media: the more minority it was, the more important it seemed. We weren't chasing likes. It was the opposite: we valued being hated by the assholes. That had its own appeal. Make something of what happens to you. That's better than getting a prize from the supermarket around the corner. 1
This article is written in German and can be found at https://rentree.de. Automatic translations into English and French are available. English, French.
Notes- “‘I read what you posted on your Instagram account. You’re like a pigeon that pooped on my shoulder as it walked by. That’s dirty and very unpleasant. Ooh, I’m a little tattletale that nobody cares about, and I’m squeaking like a Chihuahua because I dream of being noticed. Social media fame: You got your 15 minutes of fame. The proof: I’m writing to you.’ After the triumph of her trilogy Vernon subutex Virginie Despentes returns with these ultramodern Dangerous Liaisons Back. A novel of anger and solace, of rage and acceptance, in which friendship proves stronger than human weaknesses… Who better than Béatrice Dalle to step into the role of cult actress Rebecca Latté, transported to the 50s? Opposite her, Damien Bonnard plays Oscar, the star writer accused of sexual harassment, stubborn and slow to grasp the situation before opening himself up to the views of the other protagonists. Between them, the starting point of the story, stands Zoé Katana, played by Clara Ponsot, an angry voice determined to be heard.” (Translation of the publisher's announcement.)>>>
