“The flesh is sad, alas,” “O Guerillères,” “King Kong Théorie”: feminism is on stage this fall

She sees herself honing her text one summer, isolated, giving her testimony drive and intensity, with her own straightforward style. "Yes, we heterosexuals are free whores, whether we sell ourselves to a single man or to the masses," Ovidie says in La chair est triste hélas, a successful short story, published by Julliard in 2023 (and in paperback by Points in 2024), a blow against the patriarchy and the comfortable apathy of straight men in romantic relationships.

"I had written this text in confinement and, suddenly, I heard that women were organizing aperitifs where they read excerpts to each other, journalists told me that they pronounced passages aloud in the open space to annoy their colleagues," the author laughs today. When I did musical readings, spectators even laughed, even though I thought I had written a dramatic text."

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