From back cover: "A world without men - where men have never been, will never be - drives two lovers beyond the earthly limits of passion to dicover the depest pleasures of the senses in the bottomless cave of hell."...
One of the most widely read and frequently cited feminist novels of our time. "A delectable epic of sex warfare . . . an extraordinary leap of the imagination into the politics of oppression and revolt." -- Mary McCarthy...
Wittig describes an extraordinary journey through the infernal regions towards a paradisaical land. Angels ride motorcycles, and cruelty and suffering are unknown on the other side of the Acheron, the legendary river of sorrows. Wittig reveals her po...
One of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig’s most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. Among the women’s most powerful wea...