Dover Dual Language French: Cheri (Dual-Language) (Paperback)

from lydia1879

Ah, Colette. I read this book in one sitting. It was a masterpiece. I loved that it was really sensual and was very poetic and really absorbing. I loved the details of this book and the atmosphere was all built so delicately and carefully. I loved that it lingered with me, that it left me feeling...

from TheAmpersand

In "Mrs. Dalloway," Peter Walsh privately criticizes French novelists by asserting that there is more to life than going to bed with a woman. Well, Colette's a French novelist, and she disagrees. One of the wonderful things about Colette is that it seems entirely concerned with love and sex, thou...

from Limelite

Leonie Vallon would have been a courtesan in an earlier age, but in 1920s Paris she's a professional mistress who is about to turn 50 and who is kept and keeps long-term lovers. Her current liaison is with 24-year-old Fred Peloux, aka Cheri, the handsome and infantile son of her "frienemy," Mdme ...

from TheIdleWoman

The first book I've read by Colette, Cheri is sensual, lethargic and must have been quite scandalous when it was first published in 1920. It tells the story of the courtesan Lea, who has spent the past six years of her life indulging and educating a friend's spoiled, selfish son in the pleasures ...

from amydross

Wonderful! Maybe not the most accomplished work of literature ever, but exactly the bit of sentimental nonsense I wanted it to be. I read it in French, watched the recent movie, and read it again in English (a terrible, bowdlerized translation) all within a week. Lea is a magnificent, flawed, yet...