La Batarde

La Batarde PDF Author: Violette LeDuc
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628974842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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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.

La Batarde

La Batarde PDF Author: Violette LeDuc
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628974842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Book Description
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.

Ravages

Ravages PDF Author: Violette Leduc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Bastard

Bastard PDF Author: Violette Leduc
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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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 Batarde 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 Batarde 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.

La bâtarde

La bâtarde PDF Author: Violette Leduc
Publisher: Paris: Gallimard
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : fr
Pages : 472

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Oeuvre principale de l'auteure. Récit autobiographique d'une "sincérité intrépide" (S. de Beauvoir) dans lequel V. Leduc reprend et dépasse ses récits antérieurs («L'asphyxie», «L'affamée», «Ravages»). Même si l'érotisme homosexuel est très présent, le lecteur attentif saisit qu'il s'agit moins "d'histoires scabreuses" que d'un "enfer humain exploré". [SDM].

Mad in Pursuit

Mad in Pursuit PDF Author: Violette Leduc
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9781573227407
Category : Women authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the second remarkable volume of her life story, Leduc paints a vibrant picture of the brilliant minds around her--and the dark passions and insecurities that drove her to write. National features, reviews planned.

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur PDF Author: Violette Leduc
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241357462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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'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 'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian

La Bâtarde

La Bâtarde PDF Author: Violette Leduc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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Cigarettes

Cigarettes PDF Author: Harry Mathews
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628974796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud. Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world, horse racing, and sexual intrigues. Or, as one critic did, compare it to a Jane Austen creation, or to an Aldous Huxley novel—and be right and wrong on both counts. What one can emphatically say is that Cigarettes is a brilliant display of Harry Mathews's ingenuity and deadly playfulness.

In the Prison of Her Skin

In the Prison of Her Skin PDF Author: Violette Leduc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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La Bâtarde

La Bâtarde PDF Author: Violette Leduc
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9780860685494
Category : Novelists, French
Languages : en
Pages : 451

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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 Batarde 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 Batarde was compared to the work of Jean Genet for the frank depiction of 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 or Charles Bukowski, Leduc's brilliant writing style and attention to language transform this autobiography into a work of art."--BOOK JACKET.