Something to think about.Īnyway, I strongly recommend it. They also share a surrealistic narrative set in a pastoral,sheltered,dystopian environment. I am curious whether or not Les Guerilleres influenced the Louis Malle film Black Moon in any way they share in common a brutal war between the sexes and both emphasize the female side. I love creative formatting used within prose narratives, so these interludes were exciting. A lot of gorgeous pastoral,post-apocalyptic imagery punctuated by pages featuring either large letter "O"s (which,in the book, are vulval symbols) or columns of female names both elaborate and mundane (Clytemnestra, Anne,etc etc). It avoids the "men are pigs" cliche, even when the Amazonian barbarian babes are spearing them down,flaying them open, and tanning their hides. It handles militant feminism in a palatable and beautifully written way that I don't find at all isolating or discomforting. This book really deserves a review more in-depth than "lyrically written disjointed barbarian woman vignettes," but that's all I got right now.
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