Mad in Pursuit
by Violette Leduc
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In the second remarkable volume of her life story, Mad In Pursuit, the war is finally over. A new generation of writers has appeared in Paris, among them Camus, Genet, Startre, and Cocteau, and every day, they can be seen writing at the marble-topped of the Cafe de Flore. Already in her thirties. Leduc burns with hero-worship and an obsession to become a celebrated writer herself. When she finds a mentor in none other than Simone de Beauvoir, she is pulled into the center of Parisian show more literary life -- "a beehive gone mad. "In the no-holds-barred style that made her a legend, Leduc paints a vibrant picture of the brilliant minds around her -- and the dark passions and insecurities that drove her to write. show lessTags
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> Quel paradoxe de lire ce brûlot auto-dirigé contre elle, mettant à nu la folie qu'elle évoque dans le titre, et ces relations régulières auprès de purs génies qui la considèrent comme des leurs. J'ai eu beaucoup de difficultés.
—Danieljean (Babelio)
> Quel paradoxe de lire ce brûlot auto-dirigé contre elle, mettant à nu la folie qu'elle évoque dans le titre, et ces relations régulières auprès de purs génies qui la considèrent comme des leurs. J'ai eu beaucoup de difficultés.
—Danieljean (Babelio)
Feb 20, 2021 (Edited)French
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Violette Leduc had been publishing works of an autobiographical nature in France since 1945. But, aside from the enthusiastic support of Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and certain other intellectuals, she had gone unnoticed until the publication of La Batarde (1964) propelled her to fame---in part, no doubt, for "the candor in the totally show more uninhibited descriptions of [her] Lesbian loves. . . . This, the story of [her] first forty years, is a courageous confession and a work of art, . . . a weird mixture of burning, naive, lucid, and unadorned sincerity . . . and of poetic inner monologue" (Henri Peyre, SR). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Gallimard, Folio (483)
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Is a (non-series) sequel to
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- Original title
- La folie en tête
- Original publication date
- 1970
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 843.914 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PQ2623 .E3657 .F613 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, French
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 2
