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La Batarde = The Bastard
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La Batarde = The Bastard Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Violette Leduc; Derek Coltman (Translator); Foreword by Simone de Beauvoir

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An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Btarde 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 Btarde 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.

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  • Title La Batarde = The Bastard
  • Author Violette Leduc; Derek Coltman (Translator); Foreword by Simone de Beauvoir
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 488
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign, Illinois
  • Publication date July 2003
  • ISBN 9781564782892 / 1564782891
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.16 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.95 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002041532
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

The illigitimate daughter of a servant girl, Violette Leduc started writing at the urging of Maurice Sachs and Simone de Beauvoir. Her first novel ("In the Prison of Her Skin") was published by Albert Camus for ?ditions Gallimard and earned her praise from Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Genet. She went on to write eight more books, including "Ravages," "L'Affam?e," and "Mad in Pursuit," the second part of her literary autobiography.

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Batarde (French Literature)

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