Name: Barks and Purrs
SKU: 56588924
Price: 593.00 TWD
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Author: Colette
ISBN: 9781544604145

Type

Physical Book

Author

Colette

Translated by

Maire Kelly

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.4 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN13

9781544604145

Synopsis "Barks and Purrs"

There are moments when one seems to come to life. One looks about and distinguishes a creature whose foot-print closely resembles the ace of spades. The thing says: bow-wow. It is a dog. One looks again. The ace of spades is now an ace of clubs. The thing says: pffffffff-and it is a cat. This is the history of the visible world and in particular, that of my god-children, Toby-Dog and Kiki-the-Demure. They are so natural-I use the word in the sense in which it is applicable to the savages of Oceania-that all their acts conspire to make of life, a very simple proposition. These are animals in the fullest sense of the word-animos-if I may employ the original orthography, capable of exclaiming with those of Faust: "The fool knows it not! He knows not the pot, He knows not the kettle." And as such, Madame, you have placed them exactly where they should be: their earthly Paradise is the apartment of Monsieur Willy. In your salon, the probable palm and rubber-plant give the impression of luxuriant Edenic flora, relatively speaking, and illustrate the transmogrification which is to allow M. Gaston Deschamps-critic of a "Temps" plus-que-passé-to announce to the wilderness (where he speaks familiarly of Chateaubriand), and to the Collège de France, how well he can admire and understand a true poet. For you are a true poet and I will declare it freely, not concerning myself more with the legends Parisians have the habit of weaving about every celebrity. They admire Gauguin and Verlaine, not so much for their originality, as for their eccentricities. And so it happens that certain persons, unacquainted with the nameless sentiment, the order and purity, the thousand interior virtues which guide you, persist in saying that you wear your hair short and that Willy is bald.

Colette

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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) fue una célebre novelista francesa, pionera en la literatura femenina y figura rebelde del siglo XX. Nacida en Borgoña, se trasladó a París tras casarse con "Willy", quien la presionó para escribir la exitosa serie Claudine (1900), publicada bajo el seudónimo de él. Tras divorciarse y trabajar como actriz de music-hall, consolidó su propia voz con obras centradas en el deseo, la sensualidad y la naturaleza, como La vagabunda, Chéri y Gigi.Colette desafió las convenciones sociales con su vida amorosa y su independencia. Su estilo destaca por una prosa sensorial, elegante y minuciosa, enfocada en la psicología femenina y la libertad personal. Fue la primera mujer en presidir la Academia Goncourt (1945), miembro de la Legión de Honor y la primera escritora francesa en recibir un funeral de Estado.

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