Chéri ; and, The end of Chéri / Colette ; translated by Rachel Careau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colette, 1873-1954, author.

Contributor:

Careau, Rachel, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Chéri. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

France--Fiction.

France.

Middle-aged women--Fiction.

Middle-aged women.

Courtesans--Fiction.

Courtesans.

Young men--Fiction.

Young men.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 294 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: The case of Colette

Chéri

The end of Chéri.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-294).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

Colette, 1873-1954. Fin de Chéri. English

ISBN:

9781324006374

1324006374

OCLC:

1284919772