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Claudine Married (Claudine, 3)

Claudine Married (Claudine, 3)

by Colette (Author)

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Synopsis

Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris Claudine's marriage to the distinguished Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering conversations and mutual inattention. Just as Claudine begins to fear herself confined to a stifled existence a chance meeting with a friend's wife, the beautiful Rezi, draws her into an impassioned and heartbreaking affair. In Claudine Married Claudine pits her uniquely sensuous spirit against the challenges of married life and the conflicts of forbidden love in one of Colette's most moving and powerful novels.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 0099422492
ISBN 13: 9780099422495
Book Overview: A potent novel of love and adultery from the grande dame of French romance, Colette.

Media Reviews
Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France -- New York Times Book Review
Her prose is rich, flawless, intricate, audacious and utterly beautiful -- Raymond Mortimer, Vogue
This most French of all French writers . . . 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 * New York Times *
A perfectionist in her every word -- Spectator
Everything that Colette touched became human * The Times *
Author Bio
Colette, the creator of Claudine, Cheri and Gigi, and one of France's outstanding writers, had a long, varied and active life. She was born in Burgundy on 1873 into a home overflowing with dogs, cats and children, and educated at the local village school. At the age of twenty she moved to Paris with her first husband, the notorious the writer and critic Henry Gauthiers-Viller (Willy). By locking her in her room, Willy forced Collette to write her first novels (the Claudine sequence), which he published under his name. They were an instant success. Colettte left Willy in 1906 adn spent the next six years on the stage. She remarried and had a daughter, divorced again and in 1935 married Maurice Goudeket, with whom she lived until her death in 1954. Her writing runs to fifteen volumes, novels, portraits, essays, chroniques and a large body of autobiographical prose. She was the first woman President of the Academie Goncourt, and when she died she was given a state funeral and buried in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.