In the Prison of Her Skin
by Violette Leduc
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In a small French town, a young girl grows up under the hard blue gaze of a mother who will not hold her hand. Her only comfort lies in the warmth of her ill grandmother. Yet the world around her is humming with curiosity. From the obsessive Madame Barbaroux and her endless spring cleaning, to the homeless Monsieur Dezaille and his beloved collection of saucepans, Leduc exposes the eccentricities of provincial life with unflinching candour and striking beauty. An extraordinary tale of a show more stifled childhood and an unrelenting love of life from the protégée of Simone de Beauvoir. show lessTags
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Di questo libro mi resteranno le caviglie, l'odore dei capelli, l'odore della pelle, la morbida e calda protettività della laconica Nonna-fianchi larghi-seno flaccido che alimenta la nipote con amorevoli torte di mele... [così si consola anche un'esistenzialista in effetti :-) ]
Dimenticherò subito invece i passi e le pagine in cui questo libro non è riuscito ad essere il piccolo capolavoro che sarebbe potuto essere.
Dimenticherò subito invece i passi e le pagine in cui questo libro non è riuscito ad essere il piccolo capolavoro che sarebbe potuto essere.
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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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- Canonical title
- In the Prison of Her Skin
- Original title
- L'asphyxie
- Original publication date
- 1946
- Original language
- French
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- English, French
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