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Cheri

Cheri

by Colette (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

This title is Translated by Roger Senhouse. Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome and spoilt Cheri - a playboy half her age. When an advantageous marriage is arranged for Cheri, Lea reluctantly decides their relationship must end. But neither lover can forsee how deeply they are connected, or how much they will have to give up. First published in 1920, it was instantly greeted by Marcel Proust and Andre Gide as a masterpiece. "I devoured Cheri at a gulp. What a wonderful subject and with what intelligence, mastery and understanding of the least-admitted secrets of the flesh". (Andre Gide).

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 120
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 06 Sep 2001
ISBN 10: 009942276X
ISBN 13: 9780099422761
Book Overview: A sumptuous belle epoque tale of a courtesan and a lover half her age. Cheri is considered Colette's finest book.

Media Reviews
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 *
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.