Deze reeks scherpzinnige, lichtelijk schandalige romans volgt de coming-of-age en vroege volwassenheid van een jonge vrouw aan het begin van de 20e eeuw. De auteur onderzoekt haar eerste ervaringen met liefde, onafhankelijkheid en de zoektocht naar zelfbehoud met opmerkelijke luchtigheid en indringend inzicht. De verhalen vangen de levenskracht en het onuitputtelijke optimisme van een heldin die een icoon van haar tijd werd.
THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019. In Claudine at School we meet Claudine as a teenager, wickedly witty, rebellious and effervescent, competing with her new headmistress for the affections of the pretty mistress Miss Aimee. schovat popis
Son père ayant décidé d’emménager à Paris, voilà Claudine transplantée loin de ses « chers bois ». Le choc est rude ; elle tombe malade, mais la vitalité reprend le dessus.Chez sa tante Cœur, elle fait la connaissance de Marcel, joli et charmant. Il lui présente ses amis, tout aussi raffinés que lui. Elle devient leur confidente…Marcel a un père, Renaud, jeune encore. Claudine n’est pas longue à en tomber amoureuse. Renaud, aimable dilettante, lui fait découvrir les charmes secrets de la ville – les théâtres, les restaurants, les soupers – et sa faune… Mais Claudine, malgré sa curiosité et son exubérance, est farouche.Suivre Renaud, ce serait renoncer à la solitude qui la vivifie, à son village qu’elle regrette, à un passé dont elle n’arrive pas à se détacher. Il va lui falloir choisir…
Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to the distinguished Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering conversations and mutual inattention. Just as Claudine begins to fear herself confined to a stifled existence, a chance meeting with a friend's wife, the beautiful Rezi, draws her into an impassioned and heartbreaking affair.
With the help of Claudine, Annie takes steps to empower her own life, a life away from her husband.Though Colette's intoxicating series of novels emerges a portrait of Claudine an intelligent, modern woman whose life is always honest, passionate and inspiring. schovat popis
In the last in the series of Colette's Claudine books, we find Claudine separated from her tubercular husband, Renaud, who is recuperating in a Swiss hospital. She goes to the countryside to stay with her friend, Annie, and experiences relief from her depression in the pleasures of the natural world-- and in encouraging her friend to have an affair. RETREAT FROM LOVE was written a few years after the four original Claudine tales, and rumor has it that Colette wrote it to have a small revenge on her first husband, Monsieur Willy, on whom Renaud (who dies in the end) was apparently based.
Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into instant, sensational success. Among the most autobiographical of Colette's works, these four novels are dominated by the child-woman Claudine, whose strength, humor, and zest for living make her seem almost a symbol for the life force.Janet Flanner described these books as "amazing writing on the almost girlish search for the absolute of happiness in physical love . . . recorded by a literary brain always wide awake on the pillow."