Gigi and The Cat: Colette - Brossura

Colette

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ISBN 10: 0099422751 ISBN 13: 9780099422754

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2001

Riassunto

The famous tale by the trailblazing subject of major new film Colette

GIGI TRANSLATED BY ROGER SENHOUSE, THE CAT TRANSLATED BY ANTONIA WHITE

Gigi’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.

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Recensione:

"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, loving" (Anatole Broyard New York Times)

"Everything 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 grandeur" (The Times)

"Sumptuous" (Time)

"A perfectionist in her every word" (Spectator)

"Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France" (New York Times)

Descrizione del libro:

Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, Gigi is Colette’s much-loved book about a spirited young girl who finds love in spite of her family’s best intentions.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099422751
• ISBN 13: 9780099422754
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160