I bought À rebours the other day.
I preferred that to La Bas I think, or at least it made a much stronger impression on me. All the stuff you lot are talking about above relating to that book just doesn't ring any bells for me at all, it seems the whole thing went in one ear and out the other.I bought À rebours the other day.
I'm not a huge fan of that movement either. Also aren't half of the ones that always get mentioned Belgian?I was reading about the New French Extremity last night. I've seen Irreversible and bits of Martyrs and I think that's about enough for me. I was surprised how many of the directors were women, I'd assumed it would just be a load of sleazy Frenchmen that looked like Houellebecq and Luc Besson.
Also a Tea level pun isn't it?
I think Americans call chips "French fries" because US soldiers first encountered them in Wallonia (Francophone Belgium) during WWI."... that quintessentially French distinction of being Belgian,"
There is, I believe, a "nerdcore" rapper called MC++.I'm not a huge fan of that movement either. Also aren't half of the ones that always get mentioned Belgian?
Also a Tea level pun isn't it?
Or do terrible puns about vaguely intellectual subjects get a pass?
That's not better though is it? That's the absolute pits.i'm in marseille right now, everything's shut and the only thing to eat is a kebab, and at the kebab shop a passer-by asked the kebab shop guys where the hell to buy cigarettes, because everything is shut. it's 6pm on a sunday, it's the centre of the second largest city.
its better. coz all your mates and your mum etc aren't working on sunday. so you can go and see them.That's not better though is it? That's the absolute pits.