Somehow I could not see Colette earnestly and straightfacedly writing a manic pixie dream courtesan.
Er, cough. No. Not even close. I've only read, um, about eight or nine novels/short novels of hers, but that gives plenty of material to indicate that she would write anything but.
Worth the reading. My mother's fond of her short stories, but they rarely engage me. The Claudine pentalogy (so many sources claim it's a tetralogy, but there's a fifth book, Retreat from Love, that makes a required wrapping up) is my favorite.
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Date: 2017-01-16 03:35 pm (UTC)Er, cough. No. Not even close. I've only read, um, about eight or nine novels/short novels of hers, but that gives plenty of material to indicate that she would write anything but.
Worth the reading. My mother's fond of her short stories, but they rarely engage me. The Claudine pentalogy (so many sources claim it's a tetralogy, but there's a fifth book, Retreat from Love, that makes a required wrapping up) is my favorite.