Therese and Isabelle

Therese and Isabelle is a novel of Violette Leduc written in 1954, published in censured form in 1966 then in integral version in 2000.

Summary

In the boarding school of a college, two teenagers discover physical passion. Therese, the narrator, discovers the pleasure thanks to Isabelle, during three nights.

Description without make-up, at the same time poetic and believed, of the Sexuality, the female homosexuality, form entirety of the novel.

History of the novel

Therese and Isabelle was to be the first part of the novel Ravages . Its editor, reticent and fearing the Scandal, advises to him to withdraw all this part, and Ravages appears without it.

Violette Leduc integrates then passages of Therese and Isabelle in Bastard the which appears in 1964, and Gallimard agrees to publish Therese and Isabelle in 1966, in a shortened version. It is only into 2000 that leaves the integral edition, prepared by Carlo Jansiti starting from the version of 1954.

Adaptation

The novel is adapted to the cinema by Radley Metzger in 1968.

External bonds

Critical and extracted
Report integral republication
Report
Card of the film

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