Violet Leduc

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Violette Leduc (born April 7, 1907 in Arras , Pas-de-Calais department , † May 28, 1972 in Faucon , Vaucluse department ) was a French writer.

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Violette Leduc was the illegitimate daughter of the maid Berthe Leduc and the wealthy André Debaralle. The father did not recognize his daughter. She grew up in poor conditions. In 1913 Berthe met Ernest Dehous and they moved to Valenciennes . Young Violette suffered from her self-perceived ugliness and the excessive care of her mother. She developed a deep friendship with her grandmother Fidéline and with her aunt Laure.

Her school education began in 1913 and was interrupted by the First World War. From 1918 she attended boarding school in Valenciennes. In 1924 she switched to boarding school in Douai , where she had lesbian relationships with a classmate and a young music teacher.

In 1926 the family moved to Paris . Violette attended the Lycée Racine ( 8th arr. ), But failed her Abitur that same year. She began working as a telephone operator and as a secretary for the Plon publishing house. In 1938 she met Maurice Sachs , who encouraged her to write. On October 14, 1939, she married Jacques Mercier, whom she had met in 1927. The couple separated soon afterwards due to disagreements. Divorce and an abortion followed. During the war she wrote for various women's magazines and fashion houses. In February 1945 she handed over her manuscript L'Asphyxie to Simone de Beauvoir . A lifelong friendship developed from this contact. In May 1946, L'Asphyxie was published by Gallimard , in a series edited by Albert Camus . Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Cocteau and Jean Genet paid tribute to the work.

In May 1954 Leduc published the novel Ravages , in which she described her abortion in great detail. The first part fell victim to censorship because it was here that she described her lesbian liaison with Isabelle at boarding school. This part was published by Gallimard in 1966 under the title Thérèse et Isabelle . "Female sexuality, abortion, fatherlessness: she left no taboo topic untouched at the time. Hardly any other writer has described her sexual longings and humiliations with such bluntness."

In 1964 her best-known book, the autobiography La Bâtarde , was published, for which she was nominated for the Prix ​​Goncourt . In 1968, Radley Metzger made a film about Thérèse et Isabelle . On June 17, 1968, Violette Leduc's left breast had to be removed. In June 1969 she finally settled in Faucon , in the Vaucluse department . On May 28, 1972, after two operations, she died of breast cancer at the age of 65 in the presence of a friend.

In 2013 the biographical film Violette by the French director Martin Provost was released , which illuminates Leduc's life between the 1940s and 1960s. Emmanuelle Devos took on the role of Violette Leduc .

Works

  • L'Asphyxia . Gallimard, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-07-071217-6 (EA Paris 1946).
  • L'affamée . Gallimard, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-07-036643-9 (EA Paris 1948).
  • Ravages . Gallimard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-07-023833-4 (EA Paris 1955).
  • La vieille fille et le mort . Gallimard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-07-023834-2 (EA Paris 1958).
  • Trésors à prendre, suivi de Les Boutons dorés . Gallimard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-07-037039-9 (EA Paris 1960).
  • La Bâtarde . Gallimard, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-07-036041-5 (EA Paris 1964).
    • German: The Bastard . New edition. Piper, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-492-11189-0 (EA Munich 1967).
  • La femme au petit renard . Gallimard, Paris 1976 (EA Paris 1965).
    • German: The woman with the little fox . In: Thérèse and Isabelle . Piper, Munich 1967, 190 pp.
  • Thérèse et Isabelle . Gallimard, Paris 1966.
    • German: Therese and Isabelle . New edition. Piper, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-492-11189-0 , 143 pp.
  • La Folie en tête . Gallimard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-07-073901-5 (EA Paris 1970).
  • Le taxi . Gallimard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-07-027980-4 (EA Paris 1971).
  • La Chasse à l'amour . Gallimard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-07-075933-4 (EA Paris 1973).

literature

  • Anaïs Frantz: Le complexe d'Éve. La pudeur et la litterature. Lectures de Violette Leduc et Marguerite Duras (Bibliothèque de littérature générale et comparée; 107). Champion, Paris 2013 ISBN 978-2-7453-2459-7
  • Michèle Hecquet (Ed.): Violette Leduc . Conseil Scientifique de l'université Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq 1998 ISBN 2-84467-000-8
  • Hélène Jaccomard: Lecteur et lecture dans l'autobiographie française contemporaine. Violette Leduc, Françoise d'Eaubonne , Serge Doubrovsky Marguerite Yourcenar (Histoire des idées et critique littéraire; 327). Droz, Geneva 1993 ISBN 2-600-00007-0 (also dissertation, University of Geneva 1993)
  • Béatrice Jongy: S'écrire à l'époque contemporaine. La singularité contre l'héritage ( Rilke , Kafka , Thomas Bernhard , Violette Leduc ). In: Christian Chelebourg: Héritage, filiation, transmission. Configurations littéraires . Presses de l'université Louvain, 2011 ISBN 978-2-87463-265-5
  • Suzanne Dow: Madness in twentieth century French women's writing: Leduc, Marguerite Duras, Simone de Beauvoir, Marie Cardinal , Jeanne Hyvrard. Peter Lang, Bern 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mireille Brioude: Violette Leduc - Chronology . Official website. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Violette Leduc . Retrieved March 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ FemBio: Violette Leduc . Retrieved March 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ The love longing of Violette Leduc ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In Arte . Retrieved March 27, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  5. ↑ Violette Leduc, l'amie scandaleuse de Simone de Beauvoir ( French ) In: Le Figaro . November 5, 2013. Retrieved October 4, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Leduc, Violette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Arras
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1972
Place of death Faucon