Her separation was not solely due to her erotic or homosexual content, as writers such as Genet received acclaim while covering such illicit subjects. However, her success was that of a “writer’s writer”-championed and read by a distinguished few. Called “the most interesting woman I know” by revolutionary feminist Simone de Beauvoir, Leduc garnered much support from notable fellow writers, including Albert Camus and Jean Genet. Shrouded by censorship laws since the 1950s, Thérèse and Isabelle, just published by the Feminist Press, is now completely unexpurgated and available to a US audience for the first time. Violette Leduc’s Thérèse and Isabelle is a story of marginalized love that has itself been marginalized.
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