Violette Leduc and Reader Seduction
by
Elizabeth Locey
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Why was Violette Leduc's 1954 novel ThZr_se et Isabelle not published in its entirety until November 2000? Under threat of scandal and obsenity charges, French publisher Gallimard withheld the novel, but Leduc continued to write of her life as a woman writer in wartime Paris, frankly depicting her...