Literary Friction - Vile Bodies with Sara Pascoe
Literary Friction
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The Devil's Body
I was thinking also of vile not just mean disgusting but also meaning undesirable like the entire literary back catalogue of someone like Ervin Welsh. Bretti Stenellis is another writer who does that with great effects yeah and I think that there have been a lot of female writers who have been doing that as well. The uncomfortableness is kind of in service of reclaiming the female body perhaps, says Sarah Pasco. What's your favorite vile body? A book by George Batay about depravity and violence called Le Bluedesiele.
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