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 Violette Leduc Quotes
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 I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my... 
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 Violette Leduc Information
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Violette Leduc (April 7, 1907 – May 28, 1972) was a French author. She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe. In Valenciennes, the young Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor...
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 The Modern Language Review Literary trafficking: performing identity in Violette Leduc's "La Batarde."
10/01/2003: 5,999 words, approx. 20 pages The author examines how the female protagonist of "La Batarde" unsuccessfully use changes in identity to move through society. Her most successful roles, as a writer and as a black marketeer, allow her to escape from the usual identities assigned to women. The... summary from source:
The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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 Critical Essay by Simone De Beauvoir
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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 sound and fury, where love often bears the name of hate, where a passion for life bursts forth in cries of despair; a world laid waste by loneliness which, seen from afar, looks arid. It is not in fact. (pp. v-vi) [In La Bâtarde, Violette Leduc's autobiography, she is a] schoolgirl of fifty-five … writing down words in an exercise ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Isabelle De Courtivron
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[It] remains true that until the last twenty years, there are few women writers known for having defiantly translated their inner chaos into visionary, surrealistic, hallucinatory works expressive of their own perceptions…. [But at the same time, there are] those women writers who defied the norms and overcame the pressure to "please" in lifestyle and in writing, those who are exceptions to de Beauvoir's contention that women lacked the courage to displease. Violette Leduc repres... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Peter Brooks
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If "La Bâtarde" describes the weight of a malediction—the stigmata of [Leduc's] birth, rejection by her mother, guilt and will to self-annihilation, narcissism and first homosexual loves—"Mad in Pursuit" is the story of this malediction redeemed and forged into a vocation…. The book is in part the story of a salvation through writing, through assumption of the risks of confession and the effort to fix one's perception of the world on pape...
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