Name: Chéri and the End of Chéri
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Author: Colette
ISBN: 9781681376707

Type

Physical Book

Author

Colette

Introduction by

Judith Thurman

Translated by

Paul Eprile

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.4 x 12.6 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781681376707

Synopsis "Chéri and the End of Chéri"

Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume. Colette's Chéri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chéri (1926), are widely considered her masterpieces. In sensuous, elegant prose, the two novels explore the evolving inner lives and the intimate relationship of an unlikely couple: Léa de Lonval, a middle-aged former courtesan, and Fred Peloux, twenty-five years her junior, known as Chéri. The two have been involved for years, and it is time for Chéri to get on with life, to make something of himself, but he, the personification of male beauty and vanity, doesn't know how to go about it. It is time, too, for Léa to let go ofChéri and the sensual life that has been hers, and yet this is more easily resolved than done. Chéri marries, but once married he is restless and is inevitably drawn back to his mistress, as she is to him. And yet to reprise their relationship is only to realize even more the inevitability of its end. That end will come when Chéri, back from World War I, encounters a world that the war has changed through and through. Lost in his memories of time past, he is irremediably lost to the busy present. Paul Eprile's new translation of these two celebrated novels brings out a vivid sensuality and acute intelligence that past translations have failed to capture.

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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