Leduc violet

Violet Leduc , born with Arras the April 7th 1907 and died with Falcon the May 28th 1972, is a French novelist .

Biography

Birth and formation

Of her true name Therese, Andree, Violette Leduc are the illegitimate girl of Berthe Leduc and Andre Debaralle, father whom she will not know. As of its childhood, it is marked by the shame of its birth. Violet makes its Valencian studies with the college of where it internal and is made there the knowledge of Isabelle with whom it has an impassioned relation of love. Some time afterwards, it is Denise Hertgès (Hermine in Bastard the ) who becomes her amante. In spite of its precocity, Violette Leduc is in prey with terrible disorders. Its birth, its ungrateful physique and its Bisexualité make him violence and result in depressive turbid .

In 1926, Violette accompanies his/her mother and her father-in-law with Paris and continues its secondary studies with the Racine college. It misses its baccalaureat and decides to give up its studies to earn its living. It becomes échotière at Plon, where it meets many writers. It decides to write and, quickly, it astonishes by its style violent and impudic. But she does not manage to be published and becomes in 1938 Scénariste at Synops, where she meets Maurice Sachs (a friendship who will count much in his life), and critical arts person for the New Assessment.

The meeting

After having broken with Denise, she marries in 1939 Jacques Mercier but, quickly, the couple separates. In 1940, it becomes journalist in It and, in parallel, goes in Normandy to make Black-market. It becomes acquainted with the work of Simone de Beauvoir and is caught passion for the feminist écrivaine . She manages to meet her (with the Flore according to Violette, in the tail of a cinema according to Simone de Beauvoir) and persuades the Philosophe to read her “books”. Simone de Beauvoir is struck by the “elegant body” and the “face of a brutal ugliness” of Violet. Very quickly, she is convinced of her literary talent and takes it in hand by granting two to him go per month to correct its writings, and grants a material aid to him in the form of pension. This help will last until in 1964. Simone de Beauvoir very quickly conscious of the mental state weakening of its is protected and comes out regularly disturbed from its go with “the ugly woman, uglier than ever”; she will not be less faithful and convinced since these go will last until the death of Violet in 1972. The passion which Violette for Simone tests is different since it viscéralement in love and is viscéralement subjugated by “its beauty”.

The écrivaine

The Romance first of Leduc Violet are published starting from 1945 but, in spite of warm welcome of the intellectuals, it does not find readers and becomes entirely tributary of Simone de Beauvoir.

In 1946, it meets Jean Genet with which it has a friendship as major as stormy, made reciprocal fascination.

In 1956, it remains six months in a private clinic to look after its maniaco-depressive tendencies .

In 1961, it discovers Faucon in Vaucluse and Bastard the takes refuge there to write which appears in 1964, prefaced by Simone de Beauvoir. This autobiographical book , violent one and vintage speaks about his traumatisms and its sexuality. Success is immediate and it comes very close to attribution of the Prix Goncourt. It is 57 years old at the time of its triumph and it is already a woman damaged by the life and mentally disturbed. To give him a total independence, Simone de Beauvoir, which gains already much money by its books and which always gave without awaiting any return, surprises everyone by requiring the refunding of the sums paid since of the years. The purpose of this operation is to put Violette on an equal footing with his/her complex of inferiority friend and to enable him to thus discharge its .

It continues to publish and meets success each time, and is dazed in the luxury and the society life. Many newspapers require articles of him. But it also takes refuge of long weeks then of long months in the house which it bought and restored with Faucon to write.

Died of a woman

In 1968, it at the head publishes the Madness that Simone de Beauvoir strongly censured before, so much of the passages seemed to him emphatic and impudic. Violet has a Breast cancer and decides to settle definitively in Faucon in its renovated house. It continues to write in spite of the aggravation of the disease and dies at it the May 28th 1972 in the presence of a friend.

Simone de Beauvoir is named heiress of its literary rights and publishes its posthumous work, Hunting for the love , in 1973.

Violette Leduc made its life its work and offers to us and a literature leaves us which marked its time. Its life and its end are told with much emotion by Simone de Beauvoir in its book In the final analysis .

Works

Asphyxiation , 1946
Famished the , 1948
Devastations , 1955
the old maid and it dead , 1958
Treasures to take , 1960
The Golden delicious Short props , 1961, translation of gilded Buttons
Bastard the , 1964
the Woman with the small fox , 1965
Therese and Isabelle , 1966
the Madness at the head , 1970
the Taxi , 1973
Hunting for the love , 1972

External bonds

Site of Leduc Violet by Mireille Brioude, biography, bibliography and many references

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