Pornocracy
What:
Pornocracy
Who:
Catherine Breillat, translated by Paul Buck and Catherine Petit, foreword by Chris Kraus, interview by Dorna Khazeni and afterword by Peter Sotos
Where:
Here or MIT Press
How much:
US $14.95
Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan you might have attended last year's Focus on Catherine Breillat at ACMI. In this case, you will know that her films portray a world that is more disquieting than reassuring, more intimate than objective and more corporeal than cerebral. You may call yourself a Breillat aficionado, but unless you speak French, you have probably never read her novels. Pornocracy, the book that spawned 2004's Anatomie de l'Enfer, is the first to be published in English and comes couched with an interview, an introduction and a creative afterword.
Written in a trance, Pornocracy details an erotic transaction between a gay man and a straight woman from the perspectives of both players. Infamously depicting a used tampon immersed in a glass of water (among other abject scenes), the work is not for those easily reviled. Au contraire, it is for lovers of Acker, Jelinek and Emin and is an important part of the Breillat oeuvre.
Format: Book
Motivation: Improve your dinner conversation
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