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Published by Dover Publications Inc., 2001
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), dite Colette, nee a Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, est une romanciere francaise. Willy, le mari de Colette, l'engage a ecrire ses souvenirs d'ecole, qu'il signe sans vergogne de son seul nom. Ce sera Claudine a l'Ecole (1901), bient't suivi d'une serie de Claudine (La Maison de Claudine, Claudine a Paris (1902), Claudine en Menage (1902), etc. ), dont les romans seront publies sous le nom du seul Willy. Apres son divorce avec Willy en 1906, elle publie des ouvrages evoquant une liberation morale comme: La Vagabonde (1910), L'Envers du Music- Hall, En Tournee, etc. En 1945, Colette est elue a l'unanimite a l'Academie Goncourt, dont elle devient presidente en 1949. En 1953, elle est elevee a la dignite de grand officier de la Legion d'honneur.
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- Title
- Cheri (Dual-Language)
- Author
- Colette
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486415996
- ISBN 13
- 9780486415994
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), one of the most popular and best loved of modern French writers, became known simply as Colette when she married in 1893. Her husband, a Parisian man-about-town and the son of a major publisher, made use of her literary talents by publishing her first several novels under his own name -- his only changes, evidently, being to make them more prurient. But eventually she broke free of this unhappy marriage and took flight on her own, as a fiction writer, a journalist, and an actress. By the time Chéri was published in 1920, Colette had become well known both as a writer and as a personality and was entering a period of rich personal growth and happiness.
Published when the author, like her heroine, was in her late 40s, Chéri is a delicate analysis of a May-December romance. The story of a love affair between Léa, a still-beautiful 49-year-old ex-courtesan, and Chéri, a handsome but selfish young man 30 years her junior, it offers a superb study of age and sexuality, written in a personal style that reveals the author's keen powers of observation. While the theme of a young man who deserts his older mistress is a familiar one, in this novel, Colette makes it her own. As Stanley Appelbaum notes, "Colette's distinctive style, made up of swift, sure, almost impressionistic touches, and the skillful use of leitmotifs, enables her to create her own atmosphere and her own emotional universe."
Widely considered the author's best work, the novel appears here in the original French with an excellent new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum on the facing pages. The translator also has provided an informative introduction to Colette and her work, and to this novel in particular.
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