<p>'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian 'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for recognition of her own existence. She rides crowded metro carriages to feel the warmth of other bodies, and watches the hot batter of pancakes drip from the hands of street-sellers. One morning she awakes with an urgent need to taste an orange; but when she rummages in the bins she finds instead a discarded fox fur scarf. The little fox fur becomes the key to her salvation, the friend who changes her lonely existence into a playful world of her own invention. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur is a stunning portrait of Paris, of the invisibility we all feel in a big city, and ultimately of the hope and triumph of a woman who reclaims her place in the world. 'A moving, beautiful and authentic classic. We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times, for bringing it back to us.' John Banville, Booker prize-winning author of The Sea 'This book is as richly humane as anything else you're likely to read' Independent</p>

Lady & The Little Fox Fur (Penguin European Writers)

Literature & Fiction

LEDUC, VIOLETTE

Literary

Penguin

The taxi.

Hart-Davis, MacGibbon

An account of the author's desire to become a celebrated writer paints a portrait of Parisian literary life after World War II

Mad in pursuit;

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

La Bâtarde

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Mad in Pursuit

An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women.When first published, La Bâtarde earned Violette Leduc comparisons to Jean Genet for the frank depiction of her sexual escapades and immoral behavior. A confession that contains portraits of several famous French authors, this book is more than just a scintillating memoir―like that of Henry Miller, Leduc’s brilliant writing style and attention to language transform this autobiography into a work of art.

LA Batarde

History & Criticism

Batarde

Panther

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In the Prison of Her Skin

Coltman, Derek

Panther/Granada

Ms lLeduc's search for self-identity immediately following WWMs. Leduc's search for self-identity in the aftermath of WWII

Trapped in the depths of poverty, an old woman escapes into an existence where objects, streets, and entire cities have voices and personalities. Told with a feather-light touch and masterful compassion, this is a story for those moments when we catch ourselves talking to the furniture.

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

Peter Owen Publishers

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