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The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
Series: Penguin European Writers
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A quirky and compassionate tale of a woman's solitary wanderings through 1960s Paris, with an introduction by Deborah Levy.
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur is an existential feminist classic about an old woman who lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, where she counts out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for recognition of her own existence. She rides crowded metro carriages to feel the warmth of other bodies, and watches the hot batter of pancakes drip from the hands of street-sellers.
One morning she awakes with an urgent need to taste an orange; but when she rummages in the bins she finds instead a discarded fox fur scarf. The little fox fur becomes the key to her salvation, the friend who changes her lonely existence into a playful world of her own invention. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur is a stunning portrait of Paris, of the invisibility we all feel in a big city, and ultimately of the hope and triumph of a woman who reclaims her place in the world.
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The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc is celebrated for its profound depth, despite its brevity, and is regarded as a moving and sincere classic. Critics appreciate Leduc's ability to eloquently capture sensory experiences, making her work vividly atmospheric. This novel is praised as a testament to human resilience and the understated brilliance of a largely overlooked author, with Leduc's distinctive style and narrative skill earning particular commendation.
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ISBN: 9780241357453
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 September 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Contributors:
- Introduction by Deborah Levy
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 77g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Violette Leduc (Author) VIOLETTE LEDUC was born in Arras in 1907, the illegitimate child of a servant girl. Sent to boarding school before the First World War, Violette was later expelled upon the discovery of her love affair with both another female pupil and her music teacher. During the Second World War she published her memoir, The Bastard, which scandalized the literary world with its explicit account of lesbian love, sold 150,000 copies in its first year, and earned her the acclaim of Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre and Camus. In 2013 a film was made of her life, Violette. She died in 1972. Deborah Levy (Introducer) Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy- Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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