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An exquisite new translation of Colette's tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man Chéri and its sequel, The End of Chéri, mark Colette's finest achievements in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of the Belle Époque, Chéri tells the story of Léa, a courtesan at the end of a successful career, and her lover, the beautiful but emotionally opaque Chéri. Chéri will soon enter into an arranged marriage, ending their six-year affair, which--they will each realize too late--has been the one real love of their lives. The End of Chéri picks up their story in the aftermath of the First World War; as a psychically wounded Chéri begins an inexorable descent, he finds he cannot return to the Léa he left. With a preface by the acclaimed Lydia Davis, Rachel Careau's lean, attentive translation restores to these classic novels their taut, remarkably modern style--the essence of Colette's genius.

About the Author :
Colette (1873-1954) authored numerous works, including Gigi, The Vagabond, and the five Claudine novels. She was the first woman elected president of the Académie Goncourt. Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her "velvet touch" as an actor's director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities. Rachel Careau is the recipient of a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship. Her writing and translations have appeared recently in BOMB, Harper's Magazine, Literary Hub, Plume, and Two Lines. She lives in Hudson, New York. Lydia Davis was born in Northampton, Massachusetts and educated at Barnard College. Her novels and short stories have received numerous awards, including the Whiting Foundation Writers' Award for Fiction, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her collection, Varieties of Disturbance: Stories was a National Book Award finalist. She has also produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Proust's Swann's Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Davis is one of only three authors to have their work featured in the Best American Short Stories and the Best American Poetry series.

Review :
An admirably accurate new translation...[that] sensitively renders the unique tone and philosophy of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. -- "Diana Holmes, author of Colette" Capture[s] the bone-on-bone feeling of Colette's prose...Anglophone readers will finally be able to appreciate why Colette is one of the twentieth century's major writers. -- "Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse" Careau's meticulous and agile translation of this pair of novels brings to Anglophone readers some of Colette's finest writing, rich in the sensuality for which she is widely known--but also in the sharpness of her social observations...and she does so in a way that feels at once faithful to the author's era and utterly timeless. -- "New York Times" I was left with a new sense of Colette's self-possession as a writer. -- "Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night" In this new translation of Colette's two most celebrated novels we seem to be reading her in English for the first time--her prose lean, limpid, and knowingly askew. -- "Richard Sieburth, professor emeritus of French literature, thought, and culture and comparative literature at New York University" This heartbreaking, astute pair of novels...are among the best of her vast impressive canon. -- "New York Times Book Review"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798200893799
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 8200893790
  • Publisher Date: 16 Aug 2022
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Returnable: Y


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