The Pleasures of the Text: Violette Leduc and Reader by Elizabeth Locey

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By Elizabeth Locey

Why was once Violette Leduc's 1954 novel ThZr_se et Isabelle now not released in its entirety till November 2000? lower than chance of scandal and obsenity fees, French writer Gallimard withheld the radical, yet Leduc endured to write down of her lifestyles as a lady author in wartime Paris, frankly depicting her personal and imagined lesbian studies. Mentored by way of Simone de Beauvoir and a modern of French twentieth-century luminaries Sartre, Camus, Genet, and Cocteau, Leduc is, besides the fact that, recognized most sensible as France's nice unknown author. within the Pleasures of the textual content, Elizabeth Locey restores Leduc to her rightful position within the canon, bringing to gentle her singular and critical contributions to modern literary conception. Locey reads Leduc's works from the viewpoint of reader seduction, which erodes the divide among physique and textual content. Situating Leduc inside of a continuum with Emma Bovary and Roland Barthes at its extremes, Locey investigates Leduc's use of the erotic contact, glance, and voice to seduce her readers. greater than an available creation to an neglected author, The Pleasures of the textual content confronts and demanding situations the philosophical debate among pornography and erotica and pins down a number of the frequently slippery methods excitement is mapped onto the physique of the reader.

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