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Nick cave graphic novel6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Or what he, in a moment of not untypical lyrical invention, calls "the fucking Valhalla of all vaginas". Like one of Martin Amis's early characters – Keith Talent, say, from London Fields – Bunny is an antihero of epic proportions, a booze-addled, nicotine-stained, cocaine-fuelled monster constantly in search of priapic adventure. "The male," wrote Solanas, founder of the Society for Cutting up Men, "is completely egocentric, trapped inside himself, incapable of empathising or identifying with others, or love, friendship, affection of tenderness… he is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or receiving pleasure or happiness."Ĭave's fictional antihero, Bunny Munro, is Solanas's misogynistic Everyman made frighteningly, absurdly, hilariously real. A ccording to Nick Cave, the two main influences for The Death of Bunny Munro, his second novel, are the Gospel According to St Mark and the Scum Manifesto by militant feminist Valerie Solanas, a woman perhaps more famous for shooting Andy Warhol. ![]()
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