LES WITTIGS: a collective reading

Join us for a collective reading of Monique Wittig’s epic novel Les Guérillères (1969) as a part of the first edition of Lesbiennale, Lesbian* Arts Festival. Together we will read an annotated version of the entire 144 pages of the novel, translated to english in 1971 by David La Vay.

Les Guérillères is an epic novel that follows a group of peop(el)le(s) in a fight for a new feminist epistemology written by Monique Wittig, a lesbian feminist writer, theorist and activist. Wittig’s novels are experiments in building worlds outside of hetero-patriarchal logics, unsettling seemingly self-evident relationships between language and reality, signification and subjectivity, and even, women and feminism. Les Guérillières, like all her novels, makes radical in(ter)ventions into gender through language; she demonstrates that the only way to speak toward a new world is with a new language.

Duration: 3-4hrs

You are invited to participate as both listener and reader—sharing the voicing of the novel. It is possible to come and go over the duration of the reading.

Hosted by Chloe Chignell

PS: If you would like to contribute to annotating the novel send Chloe an email: chloeechignell@gmail.com*

For more details:

https://rile.space/projects/reading-les-wittigs-a-collective-reading