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Chéri and The End of Chéri - Paperback, by Colette - Very Good
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- Condition
- Type
- Textbook
- ISBN
- 9781324052050
- Book Title
- Chéri and the End of Chéri
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Contemporary Women, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 9.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 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.
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Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324052058
ISBN-13
9781324052050
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7058378080
Product Key Features
Book Title
Chéri and the End of Chéri
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Contemporary Women, Literary
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
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Reviews
Elegant and careful...Careau is more adherent to the soft muddle, or swirl, of Colette's syntax, her run-on sentences and sometimes uneven forward speed. The result is a little less cool, and more emotive...Careau's English version...when spoken aloud sings a more natural, and pleasing, tune., Both [Chéri and The End of Chéri] are short, compact and intense: waves of sexual pleasure may ebb away, but Colette's enduring importance and fascination as a writer will not., This is an admirably accurate new translation of two of Colette's most distinctive and moving novels. With a foreword and introduction that capture Colette's brilliant particularity of style and her unsentimental yet affirmative vision of the world, the translation sensitively renders the unique tone and philosophy of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, Colette raises all kinds of questions about power, hedonism, the nature of both sexual and familial love, betrayal, courage, respect...And now, in this beautifully translated work that makes Paris of the early 1900s so acutely alive and raises questions so relevant to our lives today, Rachel Careau has given us the gift Colette intended us to have., This heartbreaking, astute pair of novels...are among the best of [Colette's] vast, impressive canon., Colette writes lines upon her characters' skins to tell the story of their misfortune...Careau seems more comfortable with Colette's syncopated rhythms and her occasionally archaic diction...There is something peculiarly painful about watching [Léa and Chéri] play their parts perfectly when they should not be playing at all., It is so hard to express what is different line-for-line in this new translation of Colette's classic, but if you could experience the cleaning of a voice, like that of a painting, that might be it. I was left with a new sense of Colette's self-possession as a writer, all while witnessing, moment for moment, Rachel Careau's triumph of style., Chéri is not a new book--Colette published the book in 1920, and its sequel six years later--but the translator Rachel Careau transforms it into a different text from any we have seen in English before. Colette's subversive wit, cleareyed observations about sex and power dynamics, and her boundless humanity make the book feel as fresh and relevant as any I read this year: moving, funny, even shocking., In this new translation of Colette's two most celebrated novels we seem to be reading her in English for the first time--her prose lean, limpid, and knowingly askew., Both novels are exquisite in structure, sparse and lacy, every detail in a web of other details, merciless, precise., Rachel Careau here perfectly captures the breathy desperation of Colette's devastating two-part love story...In any translation of these two works, it's The End of Chéri that will test the skills of the translator, and Careau succeeds amazingly. Colette doesn't lack for translators, but this volume...is outstanding., Rachel Careau's meticulous and agile translation of this pair of novels brings to Anglophone readers some of Colette's finest writing, rich in the sensuality for which she is widely known--but also in the sharpness of her social observations, so ahead of her time that they come across as radical even by contemporary standards. Above all, Careau captures the technicality of Colette's prose. She manages shifts in mood and characterization as well as the complexity of Colette's sentences--sometimes terse, sometimes richly metaphoric--and she does so in a way that feels at once faithful to the author's era and utterly timeless., 'Aren't I splendid?' Chéri asks, and to his arrogant query this grand translation offers a positive response. Even as the splendor of lyric effusion and inevitable tragic ending remind us of Der Rosenkavalier, this literary masterpiece of musical interpretation and understatement grabs us with its pity, wit, and layers of lamentation for the ruin of youthful beauty and for the simultaneous self-discovery enacted by character and reader., Careau offers rich, insightful translations of acclaimed French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's novels Chéri and The End of Chéri. Careau's translations are infused with care and close attention to the original stories, giving readers an in-depth experience of the romance and human narratives in Colette's texts., This is a refreshing and modern new translation of two of Colette's most fascinating works. The translation itself is natural and readable, and perfectly suited to contemporary audiences. Lydia Davis's foreword provides an engaging backdrop to the stories and to their author., Rachel Careau's new translations of Chéri and The End of Chéri capture the bone-on-bone feeling of Colette's prose, sinuous but never florid, precise but generous. Anglophone readers will finally be able to appreciate why Colette is one of the twentieth century's major writers, and worth so much more than her mythology--or, better yet, they will see why the mythology exists. Chéri and The End of Chéri are edgy and surprising, and knowing, piercing insights into love, desire, and all the mysteries., Finally, someone has done justice to Colette's masterpiece! Rachel Careau's new translation is incredibly smooth and elegant and amazingly accurate. Colette is the most difficult of French writers to translate and Careau has done an astonishingly fine job with the Chéri novels. Let's hope she continues with more of Colette's novels. Required reading.
Dewey Decimal
843.912
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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