Lot #35: 2 Books - France: Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat Marquis de Sade Weiss and La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc.

2 Books - France: Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat Marquis de Sade Weiss and La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc. Cover condition as shown. Binding tight and page blocks intact. Text and illustrations clean throughout. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade by Peter Weiss (Atheneum Edition, Translated by Geoffrey Skelton, Verse Adaptation by Adrian Mitchell, 1966) This influential mid-twentieth-century play features an avant-garde drama set in 1808 within the Charenton asylum, where the Marquis de Sade directs fellow patients in a re-enactment of the French Revolution culminating in Marat's murder. Published by Atheneum following its acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company and Broadway runs, the work explores the philosophical tension between individual liberation and collective political violence. La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc (Farrar, Straus & Giroux First American Edition, Translated by Derek Coltman, 1965) This candid autobiographical work presents the candid memoirs of French author Violette Leduc, charting her illegitimate birth, her struggles with alienation, and her relationships within Paris's mid-century literary circles. Published in New York by Farrar, Straus & Giroux with an influential foreword by Simone de Beauvoir, it stands as a groundbreaking piece of modern French feminist literature. Pickup category timeslot {A}