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A dazzling biography of the French literary superstar Colette, who is also the subject of a major motion picture. “A fine and intelligent biography of Colette, with her long tumultuous life and the great body of her work scrupulously considered and presented with style.”—The New York...

Colette was a pioneering, groundbreaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of childhood, sex, and landscapes. In this book, Michèle Roberts examines how Colette invents new forms to express her unsettling content on desire, perversion, aging, and different forms of love.

Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat first serialised then published in volume form in 1933) is one of her short novels. This story of a middle-class couple in 1920s Paris follows the familiar romantic structure of the 'eternal triangle', with the unexpected twist that the female rival is not a woman but a cat. The novel displays her capacity to conjure up a vibrantly physical world and a particular social moment, her radical yet nuanced view of gender roles, and her empathy with non-human creatures.

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Pour un élève de Première, l’écoute audio d’une lecture intégrale est un raccourci efficace vers la réussite au bac de français. Avec Colette et Les Vrilles de la Vigne, tu travailles en même temps le résumé, l’analyse, le commentaire composé, la lecture linéaire, l’explication de texte et la préparation de l’oral. Entendre la prose de Colette, c’est capter le rythme, la ponctuation expressive, la mélodie des phrases : tout ce qui sert à repérer les figures de style (métaphore, comparaison, synesthésie, personnification), les champs lexicaux (nature, sensations, ...

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