Lady and the Little Fox Fur - Couverture rigide

Leduc, Violette

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0720649250 ISBN 13 : 9780720649253

Editeur : Peter Owen Publishers, 1967

Synopsis

Boards have little wear. Content clean and sharp with little spoting and foxing to endpapers ad to page ends.DJ has edge wear and soiling to sides.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

To enter the world of Violette Leduc's "lady" is to step into a place where each sensation is digested morsel by morsel, where clothes have opinions and pieces of furniture have individual personalities - but in which large themes of loneliness, hunger and hope are distilled and counted out like the coffee beans with which the heroine measures out her poverty. Leduc, a friend of Jean Genet and admired by De Beauvoir and Camus, recalls Beckett and perhaps Gogol in her exploration of the bitter comedy of the marginalised. Here, an old woman, ashamed to be "breathing the oxygen meant for people who had spent their day working", walks the streets of Paris to stave off gnawing hunger. Each step is an ordeal of repressed desire - for food and for recognition of her existence. When she picks a fox fur out of a bin, the creature appears to offer the chance of money. Her attempt to sell it leads first to humiliation but then to salvation. What could be an utterly dispiriting, larded-with-pathos portrayal of old age is fashioned through Leduc's expressionist eye into a forceful affirmation of the human spirit. --The Guardian

What is important about Violette Leduc is the extraordinary perfection she brings to experience and the exquisite skill she uses to describe it. --Daily Mail

She can capture the smells of a country childhood, dazzle with the lights of the Place de la Concorde or make you feel the silky slither of her eel-grey suit. --The Observer

Présentation de l'éditeur

An existential feminist classic

The 1964 publication of Violette Leduc's extraordinary memoir La Bâtarde impressed and scandalized the literary world with its explicit account of lesbian love. Its author became an instant celebrity, with 150,000 copies of the book sold in its first year. Her 1967 novella The Lady and the Little Fox Fur deals with a different side of life, focusing on a lonely old woman whose fortune and dignity are gone. Driven to despair, she discovers peace of mind by forming a strange and touching relationship with the everyday objects of the city. Written with the same passion and stunningly observed attention to detail as La Bâtarde, it is a perfectly formed minor masterpiece.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0720649250
• ISBN 13: 9780720649253
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible