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Vernon Subutex, 2 : roman (Littérature Française) (utgåvan 2015)

av Virginie Despentes (Författare)

Serier: Vernon Subutex (2)

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"Vernon Subutex is still on the streets. Hanging around with alcohol-soaked Charles in the Parc de Buttes Chaumont, feverish and hallucinating, he is completely cut off from the wider world and unaware that he is the subject of a frantic search by a crowd of hunters hot on the trail of the last recordings of the famous dead musician, Alex Bleach. But just imagine that one of these hunters finally gets hold of the precious tapes. What might they contain? The answer could have shocking--almost apocalyptic--consequences."--… (mer)
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Titel:Vernon Subutex, 2 : roman (Littérature Française)
Författare:Virginie Despentes (Författare)
Info:Grasset (2015), 293 pages
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Was fun - especially enjoyed it for the storie changes and also all this different characters.
Now sadly waiting again for part 3 in German :/ ( )
  iffland | Mar 19, 2022 |
Vernon Subutex, le messie post-rock s’égare dans le tome 2. Pourtant, l’écriture de Virginie Despentes est cristalline. J’en reste coi ( )
  noid.ch | May 27, 2021 |
Vernon Subutex Vols 1 & 2 by Virginie Despentes

If you know nothing Virginie Despentes it is because of the celebrity focussed US-centric shallow culture we live in and is not due to any lack of ability on her part.

These books are translated from the French with enough essence left in that you can still smell the coffee and sewers of Paris.

This story revolves around a group of people who were once young, beautiful, hip and riding the wave of their times. Now, however, they find themselves middle aged and in various stages of coming to terms (or not) with no longer being those same young things they once were. Some have had an easy ride and some have not. Nearly all of them have followed paths diverging from what they were when they were young. None if them planned on that being the case.

What brings them together is Vernon Subutex.

Once a record store owner and a very cool dude he is now living from hand to mouth barely making ends meet. One of his long time friends, an ageing rock star visits him and they do a mammoth session of drinks and drugs. Vernon passes out and while unconscious his friend records a long confession about his life using Vernon’s video gear. Within days the ageing rock star is dead and the nation mourns and everyone remembers when they were young.

Also within days Vernon’s landlord has decided he can make more money without his existing tenants and Vernon finds himself evicted from his apartment, he leaves with nothing more than a backpack and the tapes. He leaves the tapes with a friend and without any kind of support he sinks lower and lower into seen/not seen world of homelessness .

Meanwhile, the rumour of the existence of the confession tapes causes things to happen. The ageing rock star knew some secrets that others thought it would be better left unsaid.

The makings of a whodunnit/chase scenario? You’d think so but it doesn’t pan out like that. While Vernon sinks lower and lower in the social strata he becomes sought after by those who were once his friends. Yes, it is about the tapes and what may or may not be on them but it’s more than that too.

That’s enough plot to give you the framework that all this hangs on but that is all it is, a framework.

The real story is multifaceted and many layered. It details Vernon’s descent into homelessness and abject poverty in such realistic detail that you realise that without too many changes it could happen to you in the not too distant future. But this is not a story of social inequality. It is about transformation.

Over the two books that I read, every character in this story is on some kind of journey towards openness, forgiveness, understanding, revenge, death and more. All these separate stories meld in the search for Vernon Subutex and yes, even the French think it’s a weird name.

Vernon’s previous life as a record store owner gives a musical underscoring to this whole story and others’ individual stories too, like the neo-nazi losing his inhibition and dancing with the pornstar of his dreams after having confessed to nearly killing one of the main characters of the books. Sounds highly unlikely but actually sits well in the framework of this mini saga.

The main characters have enough depth to be believable even though not always likeable. There is a lovely flow to this story and the soundtrack may strike a chord.

Virginie Despentes captures so much in this story, the way that no-one is ever prepared for middle age, the way that we become people we do not recognise in both good and bad ways, the sheer harsh and unforgiving nature of ageing and how we always see ourselves as young and how these conflicting things can produce unforeseen results.

It appears that Vol 3 is not available on the kindle and I could not find it in other channels either which is a real shame as I’d like to know how the whole story ends. Vol 2 ends with the main characters doing something completely different and Vernon transforming into something wholly bigger. ( )
  Ken-Me-Old-Mate | Sep 24, 2020 |
And so with Book 2 we pick up where we left Vernon at the end of the first book – homeless, and somehow in possession of video footage everyone wants hold of….

If you liked (loved?) Part 1 then you will further immerse yourself in the world created by Virginie Despentes, a Paris and a story that gives voice to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the extremes of society. The word ‘rambunctious’ popped into my head half-way through this. Now, given that it’s a word I don’t think I have ever knowingly used in conversation in my life, I somehow feel that it’s entirely appropriate: uncontrollably exuberant, boisterous. The book sweeps along, covering Despentes’ favourite themes – politics, society, immigration, extremism, religion, music – and as the book progresses some of the minor characters from book 1 become more filled-out. Stories become more and more intertwined as Vernon himself becomes less the focus of our attention and more the figure around whom all the other characters orbit. Indeed, as in his previous life when everyone hung out in his record store, now everyone hangs out in the park where he sleeps rough, to discuss every subject under the sun, while Vernon sits serene, surrounded by his ‘sect’ or ‘gang’ as various characters refer to it.

The plot is, well, complicated – this is not the place to go into that. Suffice to say that it develops from Book 1 in ways that seem to snowball out of control. At its heart is music: music as communion, as salvation, as freedom, and as escape. Despentes shamelessly drops in references to innumerable tracks that will have you searching them out on your personal choice of website – there is a soundtrack to the books that is irresistible. And then there is Paris itself – Despentes has created an almost Dickensian city, a gritty world populated by oddities and characters who are seldom wholly likeable, sometimes downright nasty, but always vivid. It is Dickens transplanted to another place, another time, where drugs and violence and music are the backdrop.

I genuinely can’t wait until Book 3 gets published in English. I am tempted to try out my very rusty school French on an original language version just to see how the story ends. But then again, maybe I’ll wait... 4 stars for this, as I gave Book 1 – I’ll wait until Book 3 before I venture into 5-star territory.
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  Alan.M | Apr 16, 2019 |
Vernon Subutex is living in the streets of Paris now; he found a quite comfortable place in the parc des Buttes Chaumont and doesn’t really care about his old acquaintances. But they show up one after the other since there are still things going on all connected to him. First of all, Emilie’s apartment was broken into and Vernon’s rucksack has been stolen. He didn’t really care about it, but he had something that many people were keen on seeing destroyed: tapes with recordings of Vernon’s and Alex Bleach’s discussions in which the later and now dead musician reveals that Vodka Satana hasn’t died from an overdose but was killed. A whole bunch of people gathers on the Parisian hill, all grieving their own kind of loss, searching for meaning in their life and finding in Vernon the piece that holds them all together.

I liked the second instalment of the Vernon Subutex series a lot more than the first. I had the impression that the different stories which are told somehow better fit together and they are a lot more interesting than in the first. Even though Vernon Subutex still gives the novel the title and he is definitely the linking item between all of the characters, he just plays a minor role here.

It is not obvious from the beginning how all the characters relate, sometimes it needs a longer explanation to reveal the missing link. But Virginie Despentes has equipped them all with stunning lives that are not only interesting to read but also very diverse and each offer something completely new. What she manages in this way is to offer a broad picture of the French society, especially since her characters come from all kinds of classes and normally they wouldn’t really interact. But here, it does not only work, but it is convincing and great to read. ( )
  miss.mesmerized | Jul 15, 2018 |
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Vernon attend qu’il fasse nuit et qu’autour de lui toutes les fenêtres se soient éteintes pour escalader les grilles et s’aventurer au fond du jardin communautaire. Le pouce de sa main gauche le lance, il ne se souvient plus comment il s’est fait cette petite écorchure, mais au lieu de cicatriser, elle gonfle, et il est étonné qu’une blessure aussi anodine puisse le faire souffrir à ce point.
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