#violette leduc

[mournfulroses]

Violette Leduc, from “Thérèse et Isabelle,” originally published c. 1966

[syaolaurant]

#MCtober (Late) Prompt - Halloween Costume

Violette showed up abit late on this year's Halloween .....

She dressed up as Strength, with little help from New Fifth Year's Scratch 😊😊

[cosechadehuellas]

El café en compañía de Violette Leduc (1907-1972)

[chantssecrets]

Photo of 16 year old Jean Genet. Handwritten dedication from him to Violette Leduc (Arras, April 7, 1907 – Faucon, May 28, 1972). She was a French writer.

Two forensic identification photographs were found. On one of them I am sixteen or seventeen years old. I am wearing a torn sweater under a Public Assistance jacket. My face is an oval, very pure, my nose is crushed, flattened by a punch during a forgotten fight. My look is blasé, sad and warm, very serious. I had thick, messy hair. Seeing myself at this age, my feeling was expressed almost out loud: “Poor little guy, you suffered.”

Deux photographies de l'identité judiciaire ont été retrouvées. Sur l'une d'elle j'ai seize ou dix-sept ans. Je porte, sous un veston de l'Assistence publique, un chandail déchiré. Mon visage est un ovale, très pur, mon nez est écrasé, aplati par un coup de poing lors d'une bagarre oubliée. Mon regard est blasé, triste et chaleureux, très grave. J'avais une chevelure épaisse et desordonnée. En me voyant à cet âge, mon sentiment s'exprima presque à haute voix: "Pauvre petit gars, tu as soufert."

(Journal du Voleur, Edition de la Pléiade, 1156)

[werkboileddown]

https://denniscooperblog.com/spotlight-on-violette-leduc-therese-and-isabelle-1965/

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Violette Leduc - In the Prison of Her Skin - Panther - 1973

[abridurif]

La main déshabilla mon bras, s’arrêta près de la veine, autour de la saignée, forniqua dans les dessins, descendit jusqu’au poignet, jusqu’au bout des ongles, rhabilla mon bras avec un long gant suédé, tomba de mon épaule comme un insecte, s’accrocha à l’aisselle. Je tendais mon visage, j’écoutais ce que mon bras répondait à l’aventurière. La main qui se voulait convaincante mettait au monde mon bras, mon aisselle. La main se promenait sur le babil des buissons blancs, sur les derniers frimas des prairies, sur l’empois des premiers bourgeons. Le printemps qui avait pépié d’impatience dans ma peau éclatait en lignes, en courbes, en rondeurs. Isabelle allongée sur la nuit enrubannait mes pieds, déroulait la bandelette du trouble. Les mains à plat sur le matelas, je faisais le même travail de charme qu’elle. Elle embrassait ce qu’elle avait caressé puis, de sa main légère, elle ébouriffait, elle époussetait avec le plumeau de la perversité. La pieuvre dans mes entrailles frémissait. Isabelle buvait au sein droit, au sein gauche. Je buvais avec elle, je m’allaitais de ténèbres quand sa bouche s’éloignait. Les doigts revenaient, encerclaient, soupesaient la tiédeur du sein, les doigts finissaient dans mon ventre en épaves hypocrites. Un monde d’esclaves qui avaient même visage que celui d’Isabelle, éventaient mon front, mes mains. Violette Leduc, La Bâtarde, Galllimard, 1964

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[higherentity]

[myhikari21things]

Read of Therese and Isabelle by Violette Leduc (1966) (242pgs)

Translated from French

[librarycards]

She smiled a martyr’s smile for her own benefit: for her wretchedness was also a tenderness, and resignation is not the same as oblivion. […] There were moments when she had no saliva left to remember with, not even the pale pink water ices that her parents used to eat. Just a quarter of a cube of sugar ... Why wasn’t she a little doggie? Here is my paw, here is my tongue, here are my eyes, here is the wordless language that they speak, here is my maddening silence.

Violette Leduc, The Lady and the Little Fox Fur.

[emphasis added]

[blumenherzen]

just feeling proud of the brunch I made myself today! (in order: soy milk + coffee, salad with fresh tomatoes and rosmary eggs, bread and greek yogurt with banana and strawberries + line seeds)

also the book is two short prose poems by Violette Leduc who is a writer I really recommend. This one contains "Je hais les dormeurs" + "Les maisons de quatre heures di matin", but she also wrote novels like "Ravages" and "Thérèse et Isabelle" in which she talks of her lesbian relationships. An interesting woman.

[tvmblrgirlfriend]

bbref du coup comme je suis une fille généralement j'écris des histoires de filles, et comme j'aime les trucs glauques généralement les filles sont mortes ou mourrantes. Désolée les féministes je vous laisse touuuuut l'espace que vous voulez pour écrire des livres sur comment la sorcellerie a soigné votre couple hétéro, laissez moi juste un coin pour écrire mes crasses en paix. Du coup j'ai commencé à faire parler cette go trans, une schlagos pas très belle, vraiment très paranoïaque (à ce moment je lisais pas mal Violette Leduc, la reine des schlag paranos) et qui bosse comme médium pour chasser des fantômes et viabiliser des terrains à construire. On sort de la cam on rentre dans les bâtiments et travaux publics, yavait ce côté extérieur, meuf indépendante avec un don maudit que j'aimais bien, et on restait dans les thèmes d’exploitation par le travail. Mais en fait le truc c'est qu’il faut que cette meuf elle meurt (tragédie toussa).

[shojojidais]

I am hurt and you are hurting me. Your thumb is digging into fresh brains.

Violette Leduc, La Bâtarde

[springsylph]

obligatory “not dead, just depressed and freakishly busy” update after a month of radio silence oops

[jesuisgourde]

A list of all the books mentioned in Peter Doherty's journals (and in some interviews/lyrics, too)

Because I just made this list in answer to someone's question on a facebook group, I thought I may as well post it here.

-The Picture of Dorian Gray/The Ballad Of Reading Gaol/Salome/The Happy Prince/The Duchess of Padua, all by Oscar Wilde -The Thief's Journal/Our Lady Of The Flowers/Miracle Of The Rose, all by Jean Genet -A Diamond Guitar by Truman Capote -Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold -Venus In Furs by Leopold Sacher-Masoch -The Ministry Of Fear by Graham Greene -Brighton Rock by Graham Green -A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud -The Street Of Crocodiles (aka Cinnamon Shops) by Bruno Schulz -Opium: The Diary Of His Cure by Jean Cocteau -The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson -Howl by Allen Ginsberg -Women In Love by DH Lawrence -The Tempest by William Shakespeare -Trilby by George du Maurier -The Vision Of Jean Genet by Richard Coe -"Literature And The Crisis" by Isaiah Berlin -Le Cid by Pierre Corneille -The Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon -Junky by William S Burroughs -Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes -Futz by Rochelle Owens -They Shoot Horses Don't They? by Horace McCoy -"An Inquiry On Love" by La revolution surrealiste magazine -Idea by Michael Drayton -"The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh -Hamlet by William Shakespeare -The Silver Shilling/The Old Church Bell/The Snail And The Rose Tree all by Hans Christian Andersen -120 Days Of Sodom by Marquis de Sade -Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke -Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard -In Favor Of The Sensitive Man and Other Essays by Anais Nin -La Batarde by Violette LeDuc -Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -Intimate Journals by Charles Baudelaire -Juno And The Paycock by Sean O'Casey -England Is Mine by Michael Bracewell -"The Prelude" by William Wordsworth -Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Atalli -"Elm" by Sylvia Plath -"I am pleased with my sight..." by Rumi -She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith -Amphitryon by John Dryden -Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman -The Song Of The South by James Rennell Rodd -In Her Praise by Robert Graves -"For That He Looked Not Upon Her" by George Gascoigne -"Order And Disorder" by Lucy Hutchinson -Man Crazy by Joyce Carol Oates -A Pictorial History Of Sex In The Movies by Jeremy Pascall and Clyde Jeavons -Anarchy State & Utopia by Robert Nozick -"Limbo" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -Men In Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century by George Haggerty

[arbitrary line break because tumble hates lists apparently]

-Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky -Innocent When You Dream: the Tom Waits Reader -"Identity Card" by Mahmoud Darwish -Ulysses by James Joyce -The Four Quartets poems by TS Eliot -Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare -A'Rebours/Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans -Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet -Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell -The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren -Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates -"Epitaph To A Dog" by Lord Byron -Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard -"Not By Bread Alone" by James Terry White -Anecdotes Of The Late Samuel Johnson by Hester Thrale -"The Owl And The Pussycat" by Edward Lear -"Chevaux de bois" by Paul Verlaine -A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting by Richard Burton -Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes -The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri -The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling -The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling -Ask The Dust by John Frante -On The Trans-Siberian Railways by Blaise Cendrars -The 39 Steps by John Buchan -The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol -The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol -The Iliad by Homer -Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -The Volunteer by Shane O'Doherty -Twenty Love Poems and A Song Of Despair by Pablo Neruda -"May Banners" by Arthur Rimbaud -Literary Outlaw: The life and times of William S Burroughs by Ted Morgan -The Penguin Dorothy Parker -Smoke by William Faulkner -Hero And Leander by Christopher Marlowe -My Lady Nicotine by JM Barrie -All I Ever Wrote by Ronnie Barker -The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys -On Murder Considered As One Of The Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey -The Void Ratio by Shane Levene and Karolina Urbaniak -The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro -Dead Fingers Talk by William S Burroughs -The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage -London Underworld by Henry Mayhew