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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.
Jul 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 woman I know ...
- Tom Roberge
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 […]
Apr 7, 2016 · It is a mysterious marginalisation: Simone de Beauvoir, who took on Leduc as a protege, remains a feminist icon. Leduc’s contemporary Jean Genet, also wrote sexually explicit, homosexual texts and is widely read and venerated as a pioneer in French avant-garde writing. Not so Leduc.
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Comme elle, une génération de jeunes féministes et queers contribue aujourd’hui à la faire sortir de l’ombre. En tout, une douzaine de jeunes chercheurs·e·s présenteront leur thèse sur Violette Leduc entre 2019 et 2020. “Violette Leduc avait une manière de percevoir la sexualité hors des carcans”, analyse Alison Péron, chercheuse spécialiste de l’é...
Pionnière de l’autofiction, Violette Leduc met en scène sa propre vie et ses amours dans ses romans. Dans Thérèse et Isabelle, elle raconte son histoire d’amour avec une jeune fille pensionnaire au collège, dans des scènes explicites et poétiques. Le récit paraît en 1966 chez Gallimard, dans une version censurée. Avant d’être finalement publié en i...
Violette Leduc n’a pas eu peur des sujets brûlants. Dans Ravages, elle a raconté son avortement et, dans La Folie en tête, sa santé mentale fragile. Une vulnérabilité mise à nue, qui touche aussi les jeunes féministes qui la lisent. “Quand je l’ai découverte, je n’étais pas très stable mentalement. Je me suis rapprochée d’elle parce que ce qu’elle ...
- Faustine Kopiejwski
Jan 20, 2016 · The thing about Leduc is that she's on the one hand, a totally great feminist model and on the other hand a terrible, terrible feminist model. 2. Why do you say that? First of all in terms of sexuality, Leduc's sexual preference was basically the people who were least likely to want to have sex with her.
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Jun 12, 2014 · For Violette Leduc, a black marketeer turned celebrated writer, life is a series of crushing disappointments, from the mother who never took her hand to the friends who never stay. Early in the ...
