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Died. Violette Leduc, 65, French novelist, best known for her candid autobiography, La Bâtarde (The Bastard); of cancer; in Faucon, France. The unlovely, illegitimate daughter of a housemaid, Leduc was a black marketeer during World War II; later she was encouraged in a literary career by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Simone de Beauvoir. Leduc's first novels attracted only limited attention; La Bâtarde, with its explicit accounts of her gnawing loneliness and bisexual experimentation, brought her notoriety and financial success...
This feelie probably goes as far as the permissive law permits. Based on a novella by Violette Leduc, a gifted French writer who is an admitted lesbian, the film tells the old story of homosexual love between school chums. Therese is played by Sweden's pouty-lipped Essy Persson, and Isabelle by France's blonde, big-eyed Anna Gael. They make love with their clothes on in a toilet cubicle and the school chapel, and with their clothes off in bed and in the woods. There is also a prolonged bout of autoeroticism and, just for variety...
...helium gas for use in dirigibles. Jersey prefers that its men not put down roots, and Iron Mike never really has. He bounced around the Southwest, moved from New York to Florida to Canada, where in 1947, as Imperial Oil's production boss, he brought in the Leduc oil field that made western Canada independent of oil from Texas and Louisiana...
...BATARDE by Violette Leduc. 488 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Violette Leduc is 58 and, by her own admission, illegitimate, ugly and homosexual. She has managed to put all these dubious assets to some use: she is a writer of autobiographies, of which La Bâtarde, her fifth, was a considerable success in existential circles. It is a success based not on wit, wisdom or literary grace but on the unpleasant pleasure many people find in watching someone else behave shamelessly. Violette Leduc, shameless to the point of masochism, confesses to her greed and petty thievery, her gluttony, her love of begging and pleading, her torturing of others...