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122 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1920
A long relationship is like following your husband to the colonies: when you get back, no one knows you and you don’t know how to dress anymore.
…she lunched in solitary bliss, with a smile for the dry Vouvray and for the June strawberries, served with their stalks, on a plate of Rubelles enamel as green as a tree-frog after rain.”Sidonie‐Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), the author widely acknowledged as the first literary feminist (though she always insisted on her political antifeminism), based much of her fiction on personal memories. She wrote this novella as she was turning 47 and it is rumoured to be based on her own experiences.
“I’ve had other naughty little boys through my hands, more amusing than Chéri, more likeable, too, and more intelligent. But all the same, never one to touch him.”
“A Chéri lo puedes salvar una vez, pero no dos”
En ocasiones leer a #Colette es como acariciar terciopelo o pasar la mano lentamente por las prendas de lencería de satén colgando en un perchero. Su estilo narrativo es sensual, atrayente, emocionante y prometedor. Colette promete una aventura inolvidable y, en los tres libros que he leído de ella, ha cumplido. Colette es la primera y tímida minifalda que se pone una mujer en su vida, tímida en apariencia pero totalmente sugerente. Es como un canto de sirena.