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Leduc has been hailed as France’s greatest unknown writer. An excellent 2013 film about her life, Violette, starring Emmanuelle Devos and directed by Martin Provost, raised her profile in a moderate way. But in the popular imagination, she is eclipsed by the Left Bank literary eminences who were her friends and fans.
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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Oct 9, 2014 · The bisexual novelist and memoirist Violette Leduc was born in 1907, the illegitimate offspring of a maid and her employer. Ledoc's education was interrupted by the first World War, but she ...
She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, on 7 April 1907. She was the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe Leduc, and André Debaralle, the son of a rich Protestant family in Valenciennes, who refused to legitimize her. [1] In Valenciennes, Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor self-esteem, exacerbated by her ...
- Violette Leduc, Derek Coltman
- 1964
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 […]
Leduc, Violette, 1907-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century Publisher London : W.S. Maney for the Modern Humanities Research Association Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 436.9M
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Jul 8, 2014 · The film Violette is a fictionalized portrait of Violette Leduc, the trailblazing French novelist who was considered difficult. The strangely gripping movie captures a key moment in feminist history.
