From "Fuck me" to "Dear asshole", the irresistible rise of Virginie Despentes: "She is always one step ahead"

He still has the manuscript, a block of sheets bound by black spirals, a remnant of the world before the Internet, and he is probably the only one.

Florent Massot, its first publisher, keeps it like a talisman while Virginie Despentes, 53, would have lost the original versions of her first text, "Baise-moi", in a computer bug.

The star of the 2022 literary season with "Dear asshole" (Grasset, 352 pages, 22 euros), already printed in 250,000 copies and which is racing at the top of the best sales ahead of Amélie Nothomb (yet accustomed to being the first for decades), was first the UFO of that of 1994 with this gore thriller where two raped women travel through France and kill everything that moves.

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