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By John Self,Features correspondent. Alamy. Colette (Credit: Alamy) An icon in her native France, Colette's scandalous life and works still captivate readers 150 years on from her...
Translating the Self: Colette and the “Fatally Autobiographical” Text. In Translation and the Arts in Modern France, ed. Sonya Stephens. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
- Saba Sams, Writer
- Simone, Guardian Reader
- John Self, Critic
I was given Small Firesby Rebecca May Johnson for Christmas, and it was a gorgeous book to read over the feasting period. Johnson frames the act of cooking as far more than a means of producing something delicious, though of course it is that too. In Small Fires, cooking is understood as a way in which we experience our own physicality, a mode wher...
I have been reading Dave Eggers’ The Every, the sequel to The Circle. It has such a good ending, and there are so many terrible ideas for apps. It made me think about how advanced our apps already are and how accepted they are. It was eye-opening for me
This month I had a whale of a time reading – and in some cases re-reading – books by Colette, the French writer who was born 150 years ago this month, and is perhaps best known for Gigi, which was made into a musical with Audrey Hepburn and a film with Leslie Caron. Colette wrote dozens of books, most of which slot into the sort of length – 70 to 1...
1 de jan. de 2007 · Issue Section: Reviews. This study of Colette sets out to trace ‘the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of “self” in Colette’ (p. 1) through a chronological analysis of selected fictional and the ‘semiautobiographical’ works.
- Anne Freadman
- 2007
John Self. John Self is a book critic and lead fiction reviewer for The Critic. He lives in Belfast and tweets at @John_Self.
The New York Times. 23. By Sadie Stein. Feb. 6, 2023. Colette was not merely the most famous writer of her day, but one of the most famous people, period. A demimondaine with a shocking reputation ...
8 de nov. de 2022 · Paperback – November 8, 2022. Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume. Colette’s Chéri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chéri (1926), are widely considered her masterpieces.
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