Violette Leduc - Thérèse and Isabelle

MICHAEL LUCEY

WORKS CITED

Beauvoir, Simone de. 1998. A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren. New York: The New Press.

Jansiti, Carlo. 1999. Violette Leduc . Paris: Grasset.

Leduc, Violette. 1994. La Chasse à l’amour . Paris: Gallimard-Imaginaire. [Original edition 1972].

——. 1999. Mad in Pursuit, trans. Derek Coltman. New York: Riverhead Books. [Original edition 1970].

——. 2003. La Bâtarde , trans. Derek Coltman. [Normal, IL]: Dalkey Archive Press. [Original edition 1964].

——. 2007. Correspondance 1945–1972, ed. Carlos Jansiti. Paris: Gallimard, 2007.

Muñoz, José Esteban. 1999. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Violette. 2014. Directed by Martin Provost. Diaphana. DVD.

Violette Leduc: La Chasse à l’amour . 2013. Directed by Esther Hoffenberg. Les films du poisson. DVD.

Thanks to Deborah Levy, Zoe Crisp, Sophie and Jean-Dominique Langlais, Clémence Sebag, Cécile Menon, and Hilary Kaplan; your contribution to this translation was essential.

SOPHIE LEWIS, 2011

Championed by Simone de Beauvoir and admired by Jean Genet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Albert Camus, VIOLETTE LEDUC has been referred to as “France’s greatest unknown writer.” She is best remembered for her autobiography La Bâtarde (1964).