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Violette Leduc, Ravages (éd. augmentée)
Édition d'Alexandre Antolin, Mireille Brioude et Anaïs Frantz. Édition publiée sous la direction de Margot Gallimard. Préfaces de Mathilde Forget et Camille Froidevaux-Metterie Pensé comme un roman de formation et d’émancipation, l’ouvrage retrace l’itinéraire amoureux de Thérèse, l’alter ego de Violette Leduc, de l’adolescence à la maturité. Thérèse aime Isabelle, puis Cécile, puis Cécile et Marc, puis Marc. Jugé obscène, Ravages est censuré en 1955.
Inside the Prison of Her Own Skin: On Violette Leduc’s La Bâtarde
La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc, translated from the French by Derek Coltman, Dalkey Archive Press, 2023 “. . . very often, women think that all they need do is to tell their unhappy childhood. And so they tell it, and it has no literary value whatsoever, neither in style, nor in the universality which it ought to contain. So there are many, many autobiographies which publishers reject . . . Very disappointing . . . to think that as long as they’re women telling their story it will be interesting. . . .
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ← Prev Violette Leduc Quotes Next →
Essay | Rediscovering Violette Leduc by Isabelle Marie Flynn
For more Violette Leduc at The London Magazine, read the opening of her debut novel Asphyxia, an extract from Gallic Books’ new translated edition published in December, 2020. The following article is adapted from the Publisher’s Note to the edition highlighting Revolutionary Women in literature. Isabelle Marie Flynn Rediscovering Violette Leduc Most bibliophiles will name Simone de Beauvoir, George Sand and Colette among the greats of French literature.
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Lady And The Little Fox Fur
Her 1967 novelladeals with a different side of life, focusing on a lonely old woman whose fortune and dignity are gone. Driven to despair, she discovers peace of mind by forming a strange and touching relationship with the everyday objects of the city. Written with the same passion and stunningly observed attention to detail as, it is a perfectly formed minor masterpiece.
Therese & Isabelle
"This is all the raw urgency of female adolescent sexuality: its energy and intensity, the push-pull of its excitement, its dangers and glories, building to a coming explosion."—Kate Millett, author of Mother Millett "Read it in one sitting. . . . Literally breathless.
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