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They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened. /ubu is very pleased to present this sharp new edition of Monique Wittig's 'delectable epic of sex warfare.' Originally published in 1969, Les Guérillères remains one of the most important experimental novels of the century. Concurrent with Wittig's foundational role in the MLF and the birth of radical feminism, the significance of this work is momentous. A precursor of the Language maxim 'to change ones language is to change one's world,' Les Guérillères functions doubly as politicized SF explosive and gender-neutering disarming device. One should remember that where David Le Vay writes "the women" (1971) Wittig wrote elles, not les femmes: significant in difference to the gendered pronoun, elles is without English equivalent. Here, every word is deployed in Wittig's battle against the mark of gender. Linguistic shrapnel and fantastic invention, the delicious writing of Les Guérillères enacts a change to the language of the book, as they say, the world. Or, as Wittig has it: ALL ACTION IS OVERTHROW.