Join us for a discussion on the work of French novelist Violette Leduc on the occasion of the release of her novel Thérèse and Isabelle by The Feminist Press, with Amber Dawn, Dia Felix, Jennifer Pashley and Sarah Schulman. Her novels courted controversy with the censors in France.įorced to remove the opening chapters of her novel Ravages because of its explicit lesbianism, she later published it as the novella Thérèse et Isabelle, which swiftly became a lesbian classic.
Violette Leduc (1907-1972) has been referred to as “France’s greatest unknown writer.” A contemporary of Sartre, Cocteau and Genet she was encouraged to write by Simone de Beauvoir and published by Albert Camus.
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