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Aug 9, 2018 · Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. In the summer of 1956, Violette Leduc, the autofiction pioneer and protegée of Simone de Beauvoir, began inpatient psychiatric treatment. She was forty-nine and suicidal. Her first two novels, L’asphyxie (translated as In the Prison of Her Skin) and L’affamée (The […]
Jul 17, 2015 · July 17, 2015. Violette Leduc’s Thérèse and Isabelle is a story of marginalized love that has itself been marginalized. Shrouded by censorship laws since the 1950s, Thérèse and Isabelle, just published by the Feminist Press, is now completely unexpurgated and available to a US audience for the first time. Called “the most interesting ...
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Apr 7, 2016 · She was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force. Thursday marks her birthday: but why has Leduc been left in the margins?
—Violette Leduc. Leduc's themes have become increasingly relevant in recent years in light of feminist criticism. She has been described as an authentic female voice in presenting an autobiography that does not, like most male verities, focus on achievement but rather explores self-consciousness and self-understanding.
Focusing on Violette Leduc who wrote on female sexuality in a daring way, I read the act of walking through the lens of feminist and queer theory. I argue that female flânerie is negotiated as a bodily quest with the aim of travelling with one’s gaze to reestablish female agency and cross the limits imposed by society.
Jan 20, 2016 · Although a new film and documentary about Violette Leduc’s life have added to her popularity in recent years, the groundbreaking writer remains largely unread outside of France. THE ALIGNIST’s Beenish Ahmed called up New York University professor Elisabeth Ladenson to talk about Leduc’s troubled life and unsung legacy -- but mostly, about her unsparing prose.
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Jun 17, 2024 · The book is now considered an LGBT classic and a 2015 edition was released by The Feminist Press to honour Leduc’s contributions to lesbian visibility in literature. Leduc has secured her place in history as an author who wrote about real love and not just a sanitized and palatable “romantic friendship,” as many had done before her.
