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La Batarde (Paperback)
Violette Leduc; Translated by Derek Coltman
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An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman
humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical
appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for
her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love
affairs with both men and women. When first published, La Bâtarde
earned Violette Leduc comparisons to Jean Genet for the frank
depiction of her sexual escapades and immoral behavior. A
confession that contains portraits of several famous French
authors, this book is more than just a scintillating memoir—like
that of Henry Miller, Leduc’s brilliant writing style and
attention to language transform this autobiography into a work of
art.
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Asphyxia (Paperback)
Violette Leduc; Translated by Derek Coltman
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In a small French town, a young girl grows up under the hard blue
gaze of a mother who will not hold her hand. Her only comfort lies
in the warmth of her ill grandmother. Yet the world around her is
humming with curiosity. From the obsessive Madame Barbaroux and her
endless spring cleaning, to the homeless Monsieur Dezaille and his
beloved collection of saucepans, Leduc exposes the eccentricities
of provincial life with unflinching candour and striking beauty. An
extraordinary tale of a stifled childhood and an unrelenting love
of life from the protegee of Simone de Beauvoir.
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Therese and Isabelle (Paperback)
Violette Leduc; Afterword by Michael Lucey; Translated by Sophie Lewis
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Censored in France in 1954, Therese and Isabelle was published for the first time in its full original version in 2000. Leduc's novella follows the story of a passionate love affair between two schoolgirls, aiming to describe 'as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love'.
'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian
'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit
peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives
alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans
every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she
spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for
recognition of her own existence. She rides crowded metro carriages
to feel the warmth of other bodies, and watches the hot batter of
pancakes drip from the hands of street-sellers. One morning she
awakes with an urgent need to taste an orange; but when she
rummages in the bins she finds instead a discarded fox fur scarf.
The little fox fur becomes the key to her salvation, the friend who
changes her lonely existence into a playful world of her own
invention. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur is a stunning portrait
of Paris, of the invisibility we all feel in a big city, and
ultimately of the hope and triumph of a woman who reclaims her
place in the world. 'A moving, beautiful and authentic classic. We
must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious
venture in these dark times, for bringing it back to us.' John
Banville, Booker prize-winning author of The Sea 'This book is as
richly humane as anything else you're likely to read' Independent
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