A novel by controversial author and filmmaker Catherine Breillat, from which her own 2004 film, Anatomy of Hell, was adapted. In this poetic-polemic novel, Catherine Breillat brings her signature exploration of politics and mores to a shocking conclusion: A woman observes men in a club where they go to be without women. She then goes to the ladies room and slices her wrists. Asked the meaning of her suicide attempt, she replies: 'Because I am a woman'. The woman then suggests to the man who saves her 'watch her where she is unwatchable.' There follow four nights of confrontation where the two examine the female sex.

Pornocracy

Literature & Fiction

BREILLAT, Catherine

Contemporary

This book was never released and is OUT OF PRINT

The novel by Catherine Breillat on which her acclaimed and reviled film Anatomy of Hell is based.
As celebrated as it is reviled, internationally acclaimed filmmaker Catherine Breillat's novelPornocracy viscerally enacts the dramatic confluence of mystery, desire, and shame that lies at the heart of sexuality. In Pornocracy, a beautiful woman wanders through a gay disco and engages a man, confident that he will follow her. Perversely and dispassionately, she offers her body as the ground of a ritualistic game in which, over the course of three evenings, the two will explore the numbing mechanics of sexual brutality. What follows is an exchange between a man and a woman that is both frankly sexual and deeply philosophical. Adapted and directed for film in France by Breillat as Anatomy of Hell (2004), Pornocracy leads the reader through an undulating and atmospheric exploration of the criminal and the erotic, finally climaxing in a place well beyond more familiar moral terrain. Although Breillat's films―most recently Fat Girl (2001) and Romance (1999)―are well known to international audiences, this publication marks her literary debut in America. It will demonstrate that Breillat's famous films are but one aspect of her strikingly original poetic and philosophical vision.
Catherine Breillat is a filmmaker and writer based in Paris. She is known not only for her films focusing on themes of sexuality, but also for her best-selling novels. Pornocracy is the first of her novels to be published in English.

Pornocracy (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

United States

Semiotext[e]

Corps amoureux

Genre Fiction

DENOEL

Police: Roman (French Edition)

A. Michel

Le livre du plaisir [Broch_] by Breillat, Catherine

Le Livre du plaisir

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

NUMERO UN

Romance (Script in French Language)

Essays & Correspondence

CAH CINEMA

A Ma Soeur

Catherine Breillat, "Je ne crois qu'en moi" - Entretien avec

Arts & Photography

JOUDET, Murielle

Performing Arts

CAPRICCI

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