Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales

玛丽·达里尤塞克:猪的故事

World Book Club

社会与文化

2023-03-04

49 分钟
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This month World Book Club visits Paris, France to be guests of the iconic bookshop on the Left Bank of the River Seine, Shakespeare & Co. There Harriett Gilbert and a bookshop audience talk to acclaimed French writer Marie Darrieussecq about her extraordinary novel Pig Tales. Pig Tales is the story of a young woman who works at a shady Parisian massage parlour, becoming a favourite with her lustful clients until, that is, she slowly and alarmingly metamorphoses into a pig. A dark feminist fable of political and sexual corruption, and a grim warning of what can happen in a society without a soul, Pig Tales scandalised its readers when it first came out and became the most popular first novel published in decades. (Picture: Marie Darrieussecq. Photo credit: Charles Freger.)

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  • Welcome to the World Book Club podcast.

  • I'm Harriet Gilbert and this month we're in France.

  • To be exact, we're in the legendary Shakespeare & Co.

  • Bookshop in Paris to talk about a most extraordinary, daring and original novel called Pigtails.

  • And here with us to answer questions about it from an invited audience and BBC listeners around the world, is its award winning author, Marie Dariusek.

  • Marie, welcome to World Book Club.

  • This bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, it's been here, I think, since 1951.

  • In this particular location.

  • It's a great bookshop.

  • You're familiar with it?

  • Yes, very much, yes.

  • You come here to buy books?

  • I do, I do.

  • I buy books here.

  • In English?

  • Yes.

  • Excellent.

  • And there's Notre Dame.

  • And you know what happened to Notre Dame?

  • We can see Notre Dame through the windows.