Critical Essay by Simone De Beauvoir
Violette Leduc does not try to please; she doesn't please; in fact, she alarms people…. Leafing through [her books] you glimpse a world full of soun...
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Critical Essay by Henri Peyre
[La Bâtarde] was not only a succès de scandale … but was acclaimed by many as the most striking book of imaginative literature in a rather lean year...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
There are a number of similarities, both literary and personal, between Violette Leduc and Jean Genet…. Both are brilliant writers without the s...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Reynolds
[In Ravages, we] are supposed to be seeing a young woman who demands absolute union and being unable to find it, desires absolute solitude. What the reader sees, ho...
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Critical Essay by James Walt
With less imagination than Proust but with a frankness that makes Proust and most autobiographers seem positively Pecksniffian, [Violette Leduc] writes five pages of her ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Brooks
If "La Bâtarde" describes the weight of a malediction—the stigmata of [Leduc's] birth, rejection by her mother, guilt and will to sel...
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Critical Essay by Paul Zweig
"The Taxi" was something of a departure from [Violette Leduc's] previous work, and it is a remarkable achievement. In "The Taxi" she ta...
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Critical Essay by Michael Wood
[In The Taxi two] children, brother and sister, sixteen and fourteen respectively, decide, one day on a merry-go-round on the boulevard de Clichy, to take three months ...
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Critical Essay by Isabelle De Courtivron
[It] remains true that until the last twenty years, there are few women writers known for having defiantly translated their inner chaos into visionary, surrea...
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Critical Essay by Simone De Beauvoir
