Synopsis
An existential feminist classic
The 1964 publication of Violette Leduc's extraordinary memoir La Bâtarde impressed and scandalized the literary world with its explicit account of lesbian love. Its author became an instant celebrity, with 150,000 copies of the book sold in its first year. Her 1967 novella The Lady and the Little Fox Fur deals with a different side of life, focusing on a lonely old woman whose fortune and dignity are gone. Driven to despair, she discovers peace of mind by forming a strange and touching relationship with the everyday objects of the city. Written with the same passion and stunningly observed attention to detail as La Bâtarde, it is a perfectly formed minor masterpiece.
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VIOLETTE LEDUC was born in Arras in 1907. Having previously worked as a publisher and a journalist, she published her first novel L'Asphyxie in 1945. She wrote seven other novels as well as the acclaimed and best-selling memoir La Bâtarde and died in 1972.
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