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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Door Judith Thurman

Categorie
Secundair
Boeknummer
#323902-XC6
Titel
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Auteur
Thurman, Judith
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Bloomsbury
Jaar van uitgave
1999
ISBN10
0747543097
ISBN13
9780747543091
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century's first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario, Willy, who signed her first novels, the Claudines , as his own. They invented the erotically reckless teenage girl as we know her, and became the greatest French bestsellers of all time. When this tumultuous marriage ended, Colette went off with a high-born woman lover, the virile Marquise de Belboeuf, and embarked on a flamboyant stage career. She bared her breast to raucous applause in the French music-hall and became a celebrity of the lesbian demimonde. While building a reputation for hugely popular fiction, drama, memoir, critcism and scandal, Colette became the Baroness de Jouvenal, the wife of Paris'
... (Lees verder) most influential (and sexually charismatic) political journalist. She was one of the first women to report from the front lines of World War I. She edited the literary pages of a major daily. At 47, she seduced her stepson. In 1935, a readers' poll named Colette the greatest living master of French prose. Until her death in 1954, she continues to rewrite the rule for loving, working, and ageing.
Pagina's
596
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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