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A Life of Colette: Secrets of the Flesh

Autor Judith Thurman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2000
'A ferociously intelligent, masterful life of Colette' (Hermione Lee, Observer Books of the Year); the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most astonishing women, dramatised in the Keira Knightley film Colette'An essential biography by a stylish writer of great sympathetic understanding and intellectual authority' Philip Roth'The most distinguished biography of the year' Spectator, Books of the YearSidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century's first modern woman.She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario, Willy, who signed her first novels, the Claudines, as his own. They invented the erotically reckless teenage girl as we know her, and became the greatest French bestsellers of all time.When this tumultuous marriage ended, Colette went off with a high-born woman lover, the virile Marquise de Belboeuf, and embarked on a flamboyant stage career. She bared her breast to raucous applause in the French music-hall and became a celebrity of the lesbian demimonde. Until her death in 1954, she continued to rewrite the rules for loving, working, and aging. At the end of the century, her life and work still have the power to challenge the norms.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780747548430
ISBN-10: 0747548439
Pagini: 624
Ilustrații: portraits
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New ed
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Now the subject of a critically acclaimed film starring Keira Knightley and Dominic West, Colette is back in the spotlight as a heroine for our time and all times

Notă biografică

Judith Thurman is the author of Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller and Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette. A staff writer at the New Yorker, she lives in New York City.

Recenzii

A ferociously intelligent, masterful life of Colette, which stays supremely in control of her wild, bold, brilliant and often obnoxious subject
[An] essential biography by a stylish writer of great sympathetic understanding and intellectual authority
The most distinguished biography of the year
A fine and intelligent biography of Colette, with her long tumultuous life and the great body of her work scrupulously considered and presented with style
[Colette] has been the subject of . . . a half-dozen significant biographies over the past thirty years. Yet this one by Judith Thurman will be hard to top. . . . Its prose is smoothly urbane, at times aphoristic, always captivating
It will stand as literature in its own right
Shimmers with brilliance

Descriere

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario, Willy, who signed her novels, the "Claudines", as his own. When this tumultuous marriage ended, Colette went off with a high-born woman lover and embarked on a flamboyant stage career. This is her story.