Saturday, May 02, 2015

A Captivating Novel of Fin-de-Siècle France






By Ingrid Goatson    |   Friday, May 01, 2015 - Off the Shelf
I first heard about Colette a few years ago while working at a summer internship in France. My French coworkers were shocked that I, supposedly a literature student, hadn’t read her before and immediately directed me to a difficult-to-navigate website with all of her work in the original French. 
They disapprovingly left me in a small room with the website up and told me it was necessary to familiarize myself with her. 

 Back in the United States, I searched the spines at my local bookstore for her name and soon learned that only a few of her dozens of novels have been translated into English... READ MORE



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