A Rose for VioletteNovelist born in 1907 and died in 1972, Violette Leduc had a strong impact on Françoise d’Eaubonne. The two writers were also friends. For a Violette Leduc symposium organized at the Charles-de-Gaulle University in Lille, on March 15 and 16, 1996, Françoise wrote this text about the difficult reception by the French public of the remarkable work “of a writer so prodigiously gifted”.
““Hunger for love, suffocation of a solitary, endless rehashing of this ‘ocean of tears’ as she called herself, that was what irritated and disconcerted the French reader of those years. If La Bâtarde brought Violette a just revenge , it was above all because of the boldness of the tables of manners and the cruel mirror in which the author dared to reflect herself in order to offer her reader an unexpected example of looking at herself.“
Françoise d’Eaubonne