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Violette Leduc

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born

April 07, 1907 in France

died

May 28, 1972

website

http://www.violetteleduc.com/

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Leduc 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 an ugly self-image and from her mother's hostility and overprotectiveness.

Her formal education, begun in 1913, was interrupted by World War I. After the war, she went to a boarding school, the Collège de Douai, where she experienced lesbian affairs with a classmate and a music instructor who was fired over the incident.

In 1926, Leduc moved to Paris and enrolled in the Lycée Racine. That same year, she failed her baccalaureate exam and began working as a telephone operator and secretary at Plon publishers.

In 1932 she met Maurice Sachs and Simone de Beauvoir, who en...more

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Books by Violette Leduc

Average rating: 4.16 · 256 ratings · 37 reviews · 14 distinct works

	La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc, Derek Coltman (Translator), Simone de Beauvoir (Foreword by) 419 avg rating — 160 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	Mad in Pursuit by Violette Leduc, Derek Coltman 407 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Thérèse et Isabelle 426 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc, Derek Coltman (Translator) 418 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1965 — 4 editions	My rating:
	In the Prison of Her Skin 377 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1965	My rating:
	The Taxi 417 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ravages 386 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	La vieille fille et le mort 500 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1958	My rating:
	Correspondance: 1945 1972 467 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Je haïs les dormeurs 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:

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Quotes by Violette Leduc

“I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.”
― Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit

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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 lips.”
― Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit

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“Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.”
― Violette Leduc, The Lady and the Little Fox Fur