The famous tale by the trailblazing subject of major new film ColetteGIGI TRANSLATED BY ROGER SENHOUSE,THE CAT TRANSLATED BY ANTONIA WHITEGigi's days are filled with cigars,lobster,lace and superstitions: the education of a future courtesan. Bored and unconvinced by what she's taught,Gigi surprises all with her approach to love. In this classic turn-of-the-century novella,Colette unveils Gigi's journey into womanhood in rich and supple prose. This edition includes The Cat translated by Antonia White.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099422754Number of pages: 160Weight: 117 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mm
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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,lovingEverything 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 grandeurSumptuousA perfectionist in her every wordHer sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France
Colette
One of France's greatest writers,Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was a pioneer of female emancipation,bisexuality and literary invention whose daring and experimental fiction explores themes of love and sensual and sexual freedom. Her best-known works include the Claudine quartet Chéri,Le Blé en herbe and Gigi.
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