Colette

Cheri

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Produktbeschreibung

A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man. LÃ a de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 129mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 100g
• ISBN-13: 9780099422761
• ISBN-10: 009942276X
• Artikelnr.: 22076332

Autorenporträt

Colette, the creator of Claudine, Cheri and Gigi, and one of France¿s outstanding writers, had a long, varied and active life. She was born in Burgundy on 1873 into a home overflowing with dogs, cats and children, and educated at the local village school. At the age of twenty she moved to Paris with her first husband, the notorious writer and critic Henry Gauthier-Villas (Willy). By locking her in her room, Willy forced Collette to write her first novels (the Claudine sequence), which he published under his name. They were an instant success. Colettte left Willy in 1906 and worked in music-halls as an actor and dancer. She had a love affair with Napoleon¿s niece, married twice more, had a baby at 40 and at 47. Her writing, which included novels, portraits, essays and a large body of autobiographical prose, was admired by Proust and Gide. She was the first woman President of the Académie Goncourt, and when she died, aged 81, she was given a state funeral and buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Rezensionen

Her writing is as sensuous and acute as it is unsentimental... Very beautiful and subtle... I feel more alive when I read her Helen Simpson Guardian

I devoured Chéri at a gulp. What a wonderful subject and with what intelligence, mastery and understanding of the least-admitted secrets of the flesh André Gide