Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Julie De Carneilhan ; Chance Acquaintances - Softcover

Colette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374527857 ISBN 13: 9780374527853

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

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Book by Colette

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Críticas:

"The paradoxes of great literature are those of human nature, and Colette is nothing if not human . . . Accessible and elusive; greedy and austere; courageous and timid; subversive and complacent; scorchingly honest and sublimely mendacious; an inspired consoler and an existential pessimist--these are the qualities of the artist and the woman. Its is time to rediscover them." --From the Introduction

"Colette is one of the glories of France." --Michael Straight, The New Republic

Reseña del editor:

Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.

Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest society life she observes all around her and remains exasperatingly Gigi. The tale of Gigi's success in spite of her anxious family is Colette at her liveliest and most entertaining. Written during the same period as Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, based on Colette's last years with her second husband, focuses on a contest of wills between Julie, an elegant woman of forty, and her ex-husband. Chance Acquaintances, a novella, involves an invalid wife, her philandering husband, and a music-hall dancer whose odd meeting at a French spa affects and indelibly marks each one of their lives.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0374527857
• ISBN 13: 9780374527853
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336