What's a good book to read by Colette?

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Her short stories are great. I just finished Gigi this morning. But also, they are especially great in conjunction with her biography because there are so many obvious ties. A lot of her characters come straight out of her own life.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i've never read her before... would you suggest the stories as a starting point? i saw gigi the movie last year though!

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

the short story of 'gigi' is really fantastic, and way better than the film, i think. i also like the cheri books, although i probably like her short stories better than some of the books.

can't remember which bios i read, but have read a couple, since she's my namesake! very interesting life, crazy all the famous people that she knew...

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colette (a2lette), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Are Cheri and The Last of Cheri difficult reads? (I'm supposed to finish a novel in three weeks, and I don't have a whole lot of free time)

Tape Store, Friday, 12 October 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Neither is very long (part of why they're usually published in one volume). Unless it fails to appeal to you I can't imagine not being able to read at least the first one in that time.

j.lu, Friday, 12 October 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

have been reading break of day, took a break & read the intro to it, by judith thurman..def an interesting life colette led:

Colette's erotic legend now became an embarrassment, though not so great an embarrassment as the affair that she had been conducting with Henry's son by his first marriage. Bertrand de Jouvenel was a bookish virgin of sixteen when his stepmother "made him a man" at her beach house among the dunes of Brittany.

johnny crunch, Friday, 14 June 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link

read claudine at school a few years back and loved it

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 14 June 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link


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