Cheri (Ldp Litterature)

Colette

ISBN 10: 2702488714 ISBN 13: 9782702488713

Publisher: Librairie des Champs-Elysees, 1974

Synopsis

Cheri and The Last Of Cheri involve a tragic/comic love affair. Colette (1873-1954) is the pseudonym for Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She is best known in English speaking countries for her novel Gigi, which was later the source for the Lerner & Loewe musical film and stage musical. Cheri and The Last Of Cheri are two novels concerning a love affair between a successful but aging courtesan, La de Lonval, and her spoiled young lover called Chri. The intensity of their feelings is revealed when Chri marries eighteen-year-old Marie-Laure.

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Review:

"Colette is a kind of corsetiere of love. This most French of all French writers tells us how love sometimes binds and keeps a woman from breathing freely or how it may shape and support her and help her to be beautiful . . . One thinks of her as the female voice of Paris . . . It's as if all the house fronts of Paris were cut away and we could see men and women talking, dressing, brooding, loving" (Anatole Broyard New York Times)

"Everything that Colette touched became human... She was a complete sensualist; but she gave herself up to her senses with such delicacy of perception, with such exquisiteness of physical pain as well as physical ecstasy, that she ennobled sensualism almost to grandeur" (The Times)

"Sumptuous" (Time)

"A perfectionist in her every word" (Spectator)

"Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France" (New York Times)

Book Description:

A sumptuous belle epoque tale of a courtesan and a lover half her age. Chéri is considered Colette’s finest book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Librairie des Champs-Elysees
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 2702488714
• ISBN 13: 9782702488713
• Binding: Pocket Book
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 185