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Jul 17, 2015 · Called “the most interesting woman I know” by revolutionary feminist Simone de Beauvoir, Leduc garnered much support from notable fellow writers, including Albert Camus and Jean Genet. However, her success was that of a “writer’s writer”—championed and read by a distinguished few.
- Tom Roberge
Aug 9, 2018 · As the novelist and Leduc champion Deborah Levy has said, the publisher’s prudishness seemed to rest on the fact that Leduc’s narrative is driven by the female libido—almost unique in literature then and hardly more commonplace today.
In 1955, Violette published her novel Ravages with Gallimard, but the editor censored the first 150-page section of the book, which depicts Violette's sexual encounters and defloration with her female classmate; Isabelle P. Gallimard censored this section by labelling it obscene. [8]
- Violette Leduc, Derek Coltman
- 1964
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.
Jul 9, 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...
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It has been pointed out that Leduc's own ambivalent attitude towards feminist politics (and more specifically her apparent belief that literary activity affords women access to a (privileged) virility they otherwise lack) mean that her texts cannot be taken to embody a 'revanche feministe'.5 However, Leduc's position must not be oversimplified.
