Colette

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COLETTE
A PASSION FOR LIFE
GENEVIEVE DORMANN
Colette's life was as colourful and as scandalous as any of her own novels. Never out of the pub' lie eye from the age of twenty, she was also one of the most photographed people of her time, and the wealth of material in this biography adds up to a social document as well as a personal history. Here is Colette the village girl in Burgundy, already keen of appetite and dreaming of being abducted; Colette, child-wife of the notorious Willy, man-about-town, amourist and wit; Colette the ghostwriter, turning out spicy novelettes for Willy to publish under his own name; Colette the music-hall actress, the first woman to expose her own skin rather than a flesh-coloured leotard (for which the bourgeoisie and the Catholic Church never forgave her); Colette the conscious literary artist, forging a style that placed her among the great writers of France; Colette the woman in love -with her own sex as well as with men, and with her own... Tovább

Fülszöveg

COLETTE
A PASSION FOR LIFE
GENEVIEVE DORMANN
Colette's life was as colourful and as scandalous as any of her own novels. Never out of the pub' lie eye from the age of twenty, she was also one of the most photographed people of her time, and the wealth of material in this biography adds up to a social document as well as a personal history. Here is Colette the village girl in Burgundy, already keen of appetite and dreaming of being abducted; Colette, child-wife of the notorious Willy, man-about-town, amourist and wit; Colette the ghostwriter, turning out spicy novelettes for Willy to publish under his own name; Colette the music-hall actress, the first woman to expose her own skin rather than a flesh-coloured leotard (for which the bourgeoisie and the Catholic Church never forgave her); Colette the conscious literary artist, forging a style that placed her among the great writers of France; Colette the woman in love -with her own sex as well as with men, and with her own step-son; Colette the loyal friend, the gourmet, animal-lover and native of the soil; and Colette in the 1940s and 1950s, in her old age, honoured by her country, crippled by arthritis but with her critical intelligence and passion for life undimmed.
The nearly five hundred illustrations include photographs of Colette taken by photographers such as Cartier-Bresson and Cecil Beaton, drawings of her by Cocteau, Vertes and Moreau, theatre posters and caricatures. Genevieve Dormann's concise biography provides a narrative background to the pictures and evokes, with wide-ranging quotations from Colette's letters - some hitherto unpublished - and other writings, her mercurial personality. Those already under the spell of Colette's novels will find this book irresistible; the rest will be spurred to make the discovery for themselves. Vissza