Colette

The Collected Stories Of Colette (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Edited and with an introduction by Robert PhelpsThe hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as 'Bella-Vista', 'The Tender Shoot' and 'Le K-pi', Colette's subtle and ruthless rendering of a woman's belated sexual awakening. Shot through with the colours and flavours of the Parisian world and fertile French countryside, these short stories reverberate with the fine-spun desire, wit and psychological acuity that made Colette unique.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446467541
• Artikelnr.: 39270382

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 Gauthiers-Viller (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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Robert Phelps
A Note on the Text
Translator's Acknowledgments
PART I: Early Stories
CLOUK/CHÉRI
The Other Table
The Screen
Clouk Alone
Clouk's Fling
Chéri
The Return
The Pearls
DIALOGUES FOR ONE VOICE
Literature
My Goddaughter
A Hairdresser
A Masseuse
My Corset Maker
The Saleswoman
An Interview
MY FRIEND VALENTINE
A Letter
The Sémiramis Bar
"If I had a Daughter . . ."
Rites
Newly Shorn
Grape Harvest
In the Boudoir
The "Master"
Morning Glories
What Must We Look Like?
The Cure
Sleepless Nights
Gray Days
The Last Fire
A Fable: The Tendrils of the Vine
PART II: Backstage at the Music Hall
ON TOUR
The Halt
Arrival and Rehearsal
A Bad Morning
The Circus Horse
The Workroom
Matinee
The Starveling
Love
The Hard Worker
After Midnight
"Lola"
Moments of Stress
Journey's End
"The Strike, Oh, Lord, the Strike!"
Bastienne's Child
CHEAP-JACKS
The Accompanist
The Cashier
Nostalgia
Clever Dogs
The Child Prodigy
The Misfit
FROM THE FRONT
"La Fenice"
"Gitanette "
The Victim
The Tenor
The Quick-Change Artist
Florie
Gribiche
PART III: Varieties of Human Nature
The Hidden Woman
Dawn
One Evening
The Hand
A Dead End
The Fox
The Judge
The Omelette
The Other Wife
Monsieur Maurice
The Burglar
The Advice
The Murderer
The Portrait
The Landscape
The Half-Crazy
Secrets
"Châ"
The Bracelet
The Find
Mirror Games
Habit
Alix's Refusal
The Seamstress
The Watchman
The Hollow Nut
The Patriarch
The Sick Child
The Rainy Moon
Green Sealing Wax
PART IV: Love
In the Flower of Age
The Rivals
The Respite
The Bitch
The Tender Shoot
Bygone Spring
October
Armande
The Rendezvous
The Kepi
The Photographers Wife
Bella-Vista
April