Colette Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

In Mein Blumenalbum richtet die berühmte französische Schriftstellerin Colette ihre Gedanken und Empfindungen an die sie umgebende blühende Pflanzenwelt, in der sie sich selbst wiederfindet: ihre ungebändigte Kindheit in der Natur ebenso wie die schmerzlichen Zustände ihres fortgeschrittenen Alters. Sie sinnt der Glyzinie und ihrer bezwingenden Schönheit ebenso nach wie dem schwarzen Stiefmütterchen »Faust«, der Lilie mit ihrem »arglistigen Duft«, der aufrechten bunten Tulpe, der Herz und Seele stärkenden Schafgarbe, der Maiglöckchenblüte oder der großen Trinkerin Narzisse – »sie hat immer Durst«. Dieser Durst nach der intensiven Erfahrung der Natur speist die Intensität ebenso wie die feine Ironie und eindringliche Schlichtheit ihrer 22 Blumenporträts. Die bibliophile Ausgabe mit den speziell für diesen Band von Raoul Dufy gemalten Aquarellen erscheint erstmalig in Deutschland.

»Man bewundert an Colette eine Lebendigkeit, die es bei keinem männlichen Schriftsteller gibt.« Simone de BeauvoirColette ist unvergleichlich. Die Frau, die heute neben Flaubert und Proust steht, beginnt als Enfant terrible: Ihre provozierenden »Claudine«-Romane veröffentlicht der Ehemann unter seinem Namen; später sorgt ihr freizügiges Leben für Skandale. In »Claudines Elternhaus« schreibt Colette ihre eigene Geschichte: Kindheit und Jugend in dem kleinen burgundischen Dorf, eine zärtliche, ironische Hommage an Eltern, Geschwister, an Handwerker, Honoratioren, Schulkameraden und nicht zuletzt die geliebten Tiere. »Claudines Elternhaus« erzählt davon, wie ein kleines Mädchen zu Colette wird – das wunderbare Selbstporträt einer großen Schriftstellerin.

The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Condé, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, covering world wars, revolutions and the horrors of the motorway service station. Along the way we meet electronic brains, she-wolves, a sadistic Cinderella, ancestors, infidels, dissatisfied housewives and lonely ambassadors, all clamouring to be heard. Funny, devastating and fresh at every turn, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old.

Claudine à l'école, publié en mars 1900, est un ouvrage marquant signé Willy, pseudonyme d'Henry Gauthier-Villars. Toutefois, ce texte se démarque, car il est écrit par sa jeune épouse, Sidonie-Gabrielle, connue sous le nom de Colette. Ce livre introduit Claudine, un personnage qui deviendra mythique, et préfigure d'autres créations de Colette, comme Sido, sa mère, et Gigi, une jeune fille qui échappe à son destin. Colette, qui a mené une vie riche en expériences—danseuse, actrice, journaliste—recherche l'indépendance et la liberté à travers ses œuvres. Elle rejette la "littérature" conventionnelle, préférant un style direct et sensible. En 1920, l'ouverture de Chéri stupéfia les lecteurs, et son écriture continue d'être admirée un siècle plus tard. Antoine Compagnon souligne la capacité de Colette à évoquer "le monde de l'enfance, l'étoffe de la sensation, l'émotion de la mémoire". Elle est reconnue comme la première femme à avoir écrit en tant que femme, abordant des thèmes comme les amours adolescentes et la relation avec la nature. Pour apprécier pleinement son œuvre, il est essentiel de se concentrer sur ces trois domaines, qui résonnent également avec l'œuvre de Proust.

Ein ideales Geschenk für Gartenliebhaber! Colette nimmt uns mit auf eine literarische Reise durch den Blumengarten, präsentiert eine Vielfalt an Blumen und feiert die Schönheit der Natur. Mit farbigen Abbildungen von Künstlern wie Maria Sybilla Merian und Piere-Joseph Redouté wird die Poesie der Blumen lebendig.

Vingt ans après la mort de ma tante, Colette de Jouvenel, unique enfant de Colette et de mon grand-père Henry de Jouvenel, l'heure m'a paru venue de publier la correspondance qu'elle échangea avec sa mère. Elle me l'avait laissée avec mission de le faire " le plus tard possible ". En quelque sorte elle s'en était libérée. Il me fallut cependant une grande détermination. Les lettres ont pour moi un caractère si intime que j'en étais retenue. Colette elle-même ne s'écrie-telle pas à l'occasion de la vente d'une de ses lettres à Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac " Une lettre est un objet sacré qu'aucune vente ne doit profaner : c'est un scandale intolérable que de disperser aux quatre vents des pensées, des impressions, connues seulement de deux personnes. " Si je me suis laissé convaincre d'ordonner les quelque six cent cinquante pièces de ce puzzle, c'est pour montrer un aspect inconnu de Colette et faire revivre la " Petite Colette ". Ce que je ne pouvais imaginer, c'est que tous les originaux seraient volés chez moi le jour même où le travail s'achevait... Puisse le cambrioleur se souvenir de la phrase ci-dessus et rendre son butin...

In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best. Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courtesan: to choose cigars, to eat lobster, to enter a world where a woman's chief weapon is her body. However, when it comes to the question of Gaston Lachaille, very rich and very bored, Gigi does not want to obey the rules. In 'The Cat', a wonderful story of burgeoning sexuality and blossoming love, an exquisite strong-minded Russian Blue is struggling for mastery of Alain with his seductive fianc-e, Camille.

Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into instant, sensational success. Among the most autobiographical of Colette's works, these four novels are dominated by the child-woman Claudine, whose strength, humor, and zest for living make her seem almost a symbol for the life force.Janet Flanner described these books as "amazing writing on the almost girlish search for the absolute of happiness in physical love . . . recorded by a literary brain always wide awake on the pillow."

Ako predbúrkové ovzdušie praská elektrinou, tak sa celý tento príbeh chveje erotickým nábojom. Nielen tajomná pani Dalerayová, jeden z vrcholov milostného trojuholníka, je priam stelesnením zmyselnej lásky, ale aj Vinka, ktorá práve vošla do chrámu lásky, pre túto lásku a pre nemožnosť jej vrcholného naplnenia v danom čase, je odhodlaná podstúpiť aj smrť. A práve pre prítomnosť toho silného citu má erotický náboj plusovú hodnotu a nemôže nikoho zvádzať hodnotiť ho ako lacný nástroj na získanie čitateľa, ktorý má rád dráždivé historky. Príbeh Vinky a Phila je príbehom ešte takmer detí, ich prudko rastúcej lásky a prebúdzajúcej sa vášne, odohrávajúci sa na pozadí bezfarebného sveta dospelých "TIEŇOV" a naopak, prekrásnych farieb prírody Bretonska. Autorka Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette, čitateľom zväčša známa iba ako Colette, je neobyčajne jemný majster pri vciťovaní sa do duší novodobých milencov Daphnisa a Chloé, rovnako ako pri reprodukovaní toho, čo vníma a cíti. Jej príbeh je krehký, krásny a plný ako porcelánová šálka so vzácnym nápojom. Nech čitateľ prijme pozvanie a napije sa.

L'amour, n'est-ce qu'un écueil sur une route tranquille? En ce cas, nul besoin de l'éviter. Il suffit de le franchir. C'est ce que croit Renée Néré avant de rencontrer Jean. Et Jean arrive. Jean en colère, Jean dédaigneux et persifleur ou Jean sournois, qu'importe, pourvu que ce soit Jean! "Merveille de la présence, sécurité inexplicable de tous les sens", mais également entrave. Renée va-t-elle se laisser prendre par cet amour qui la jette vers Jean et où elle tremble de se briser? Elle fuit, elle se débat, elle se tait, elle se ment. Mais elle sera vaincue. Renée, l'ancienne Renée, est morte. La nouvelle, désormais, n'existera qu'à travers Jean, et amarrée à lui.

Qual è il male peggiore? Un tradimento per amicizia o per sensualità? Questo l'interrogativo posto da Michel, impresario teatrale protagonista di Duett, al quale un riflesso di luce viola ha svelato l'adulterio commesso dalla moglie Alice. Michel, che è uno di quegli uomini superficiali capaci di profonde passioni segrete, non sa darsi pace e rifiuta, assieme alle ragioni della moglie, la possibilità di tornare a essere felice.

Le Fanal bleu, dernier ouvrage de Colette, nous entraîne dans un voyage immobile de Paris à Genève en passant par Grasse et les vignobles du Beaujolais. Souvenirs, scènes entre amis : Jean Cocteau, Marguerite Moreno, Jean Marais..., anecdotes et réflexions s'enchaînent sous l'œil vigilant d'une " chatte " blottie dans un intérieur feutré, qui pose sur le monde un regard où la maturité pourpre de l'automne s'enrichit des pastels de l'enfance. Tout au long de sa vie, Colette n'a cessé d'amasser une abondance moisson d'images. Elle en donne dans le Fanal bleu une gerbe magnifique, car le temps ni la maladie ne peuvent prévaloir contre la vitalité et la saveur de son talent.

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Die Frauen in den Erzählungen der scharfsinnigen Colette sind prägnante Schöpfungen einer unbestechlichen Beobachterin, die von ihrem eigenen Leben mit psychologischer Klarsicht, ironisch und poetisch zu erzählen weiß, oder auch ganz unmittelbar - wie in den stimmungsvollen Erinnerungen an die eigene Kindheit im Burgund. »Madame Colettes Stil ist üppig. Er geht mit Salz sparsam um, meidet das zu Fette, nimmt Pfeffer, Knoblauch, verschiedene Kräuter und scheut nicht davor zurück, unvermutet auf diese kleinen roten Pimente beißen zu lassen, auf eine dieser kleinen Gnomenkappen, die so scharf sind, daß man den Mund nicht mehr zubringt.« Jean Cocteau

This volume brings together for the first time in English a collection including a series of stories and a novella, formed of a group of linked autobiographical pieces first published posthumously in France as Mon Amie Valentine.

Ob anmutige, verwöhnte Katze oder streunender Kater im harten Revierkampf – Colettes Katzen zeigen ihren ungebrochenen Stolz und Mut sowie eine magische Schönheit. Alle Katzenwesen von Colette leben – frei oder bei ihren Menschen – in den Wohnungen, versteckten Höfen oder Gärten von Paris. Bei der Lektüre verwandelt sich die Stadt in ein geheimnisvolles, großes Katzenrevier. Colette, die Dichterin der Leidenschaft und der Liebe, zeigt die Natur und die Instinkte der Tiere – fern von Kitsch und Verniedlichung. Und man ahnt es: Manche Katzen verkörpern die schönere und freiere Seele der Menschen.

Ce volume contient: Claudine à l'école - Claudine à Paris - Claudine en ménage - Claudine s'en va - L'Ingénue libertine - La Retraite sentimentale - Les Vrilles de la vigne - La Vagabonde Édition sous la direction de Claude Pichois avec la collaboration de Alain Brunet, Alain Brunet, Léon Delanoë, Jacques Frugier, Paul d' Hollander, Michel Mercier, Madeleine Raaphorst-Rousseau

[Colette: Claudine erwacht Taschenbuch (Akzeptabel) Fischer 1976 ]

Dva romány (Kočka, 1933; Duo, 1934) francouzské herečky a nejvýznamnější francouzské spisovatelky první poloviny dvacátého století, spisovatelky, jež se ve své tvorbě zaměřovala na líčení citů, instinktů a erotických vztahů postav a zejména pak ženských hrdinek. Oba romány představují variace na téma žárlivosti mezi mužem a ženou třicátých let. V prvním se manželské neporozumění projevuje ženinou žárlivostí na manželovu kočku. Ve druhém, v němž převládá dialog, se muž nedovede smířit s jedinou smyslovou nevěrou své ženy.

Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series of unforgettable encounters with men and, especially, women whose lives have been improbably and yet permanently transfigured by the strange power of desire. Lucid and lyrical, The Pure and the Impure stands out as one of modern literature's subtlest reckonings not only with the varieties of sexual experience, but with the always unlikely nature of love.

With the help of Claudine, Annie takes steps to empower her own life, a life away from her husband.Though Colette's intoxicating series of novels emerges a portrait of Claudine an intelligent, modern woman whose life is always honest, passionate and inspiring. schovat popis

Colettin románek či novela dvou dospívajících dětí, zasazený do rámce krásné přímořské krajiny, bývá často srovnáván se starobylým příběhem o Dafnisovi a Chloé. Hrdinové, Vinka a Fil, jsou v Colettině podání nejen zamilovanou dvojicí, ale reprezentují plně mladé lidi z konce 19. století.

Quando inizia la loro vita comune, Alain e Camille sono due amici d'infanzia che tutto sembra avvicinare, ma le loro segrete fantasie li dividono. "Il mio matrimonio," riconosce Alain, "soddisfa tutti, Camille, e ci sono momenti in cui soddisfa anche me, ma..." Ciò che Alain ama in Camille è una bellezza idealizzata fatta di immobilità e silenzio. Così è disorientato dalla sua esuberanza. Come l'arrivo di una nuova stagione, la scoperta della loro intima divisione lo mette alla mercé di altri sogni. Ed è allora che si svolge il dramma. La gatta Saha sarà da ora in poi per Alain la chimera sublime che domina la sua vita e per Camille la rivale odiata contro la quale nessun mezzo è troppo brutale.

Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to the distinguished Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering conversations and mutual inattention. Just as Claudine begins to fear herself confined to a stifled existence, a chance meeting with a friend's wife, the beautiful Rezi, draws her into an impassioned and heartbreaking affair.

Comforted by her devoted maid Melie, her slug-obsessed Papa, and the trustworthy cat Fanchette, Claudine's instinctive curiosity gradually leads to an awakened interest in the city. schovat popis

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Scandalizzando Parigi al suo debutto nel 1900, la protagonista di Colette, Claudine, ha affascinato e deliziato generazioni da allora, poiché i sapori, i profumi segreti e le esperienze di una giovane ragazza che fiorisce verso la maturità non sono mai stati evocati con tale lirismo sensuale, franchezza e amore irrefrenabile per la vita. Questo volume contiene l'intera tetralogia.

A poignant novel about the bittersweet farewell to childhood. One summer by the sea changes everything for Vinca, a young girl, and Philippe, her longtime companion, as they navigate the intimate entanglements of the heart. Colette's small masterpiece reads as both a captivating summer romance and a chronicle of all-consuming adolescence. Fifteen-year-old Vinca adores the sea and the seemingly endless summer months: swimming, fishing, and wandering through the dunes and along the rocky shores. Year after year, she has shared this time of joy and childlike innocence with Philippe. However, this summer feels different—less carefree, less joyful. What was once a source of laughter now brings awkwardness, and thoughts and feelings that were once shared openly are now kept secret. As Vinca and Philippe embark on new horizons, they find themselves unexpectedly estranged by their feelings for one another, yet more intimately connected than ever.

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019. In Claudine at School we meet Claudine as a teenager, wickedly witty, rebellious and effervescent, competing with her new headmistress for the affections of the pretty mistress Miss Aimee. schovat popis

Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume. Colette’s Chéri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chéri (1926), are widely considered her masterpieces. In sensuous, elegant prose, the two novels explore the evolving inner lives and the intimate relationship of an unlikely couple: Léa de Lonval, a middle-aged former courtesan, and Fred Peloux, twenty-five years her junior, known as Chéri. The two have been involved for years, and it is time for Chéri to get on with life, to make something of himself, but he, the personification of male beauty and vanity, doesn’t know how to go about it. It is time, too, for Léa to let go ofChéri and the sensual life that has been hers, and yet this is more easily resolved than done. Chéri marries, but once married he is restless and is inevitably drawn back to his mistress, as she is to him. And yet to reprise their relationship is only to realize even more the inevitability of its end. That end will come when Chéri, back from World War I, encounters a world that the war has changed through and through. Lost in his memories of time past, he is irremediably lost to the busy present. Paul Eprile’s new translation of these two celebrated novels brings out a vivid sensuality and acute intelligence that past translations have failed to capture.

"One of the first and best feminist novels ever written." — Erica Jong. This vivid portrait of Parisian music hall life was drawn from the personal experiences of the author of Gigi. Colette's 1910 novel reflects her adventures as an itinerant dancer as well as her struggles balancing respectability and artistic freedom.

Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, a teenage girl named Gigi faces the pressures of becoming a high-class courtesan, following in the footsteps of her family. As her relatives groom her for this life, Gigi's timid nature suggests she may desire a different future. Colette's novella explores themes of exploitation and resistance, offering a nuanced perspective on societal expectations. This edition also includes the delightful short story "The Cat," enhancing the exploration of feminine identity and autonomy.

«Son mouvement libéra le mari inquiet, qui, rendu a une jalousie active et normale, recommença de penser et se leva sans précipitation pour suivre sa femme. Elle est ici pour quelqu'un, avec quelqu'un. Dans moins d'une heure, je saurai tout. Cent cagoules, violettes ou vertes, lui garantissaient qu'il ne serait ni remarqué, ni reconnu.»

«Quando una donna matura ha una relazione con un ragazzo giovanissimo lei rischia meno di lui. In tutte le storie che lui avrà in seguito, sarà marchiato da quella esperienza e non riuscirà a cancellare il ricordo di quella sua prima amante» (Colette in un’intervista). La dimostrazione di questo teorema ci è offerta dalla Fine di Chéri (1926), seguito duro e amaro di Chéri . La scena si apre nel momento stesso in cui il primo romanzo si chiudeva: «Chéri si richiuse alle spalle il cancello del piccolo giardino e aspirò l’aria della notte: “Come si sta bene...”. Ma si riprese subito: “No, non si sta bene”. Gli ippocastani accalcati gravavano sulla calura prigioniera». Con sconcerto, e una sottile rabbia, Chéri dovrà riconoscere che anche nella vita lui non sta poi così bene. Giunto all’acme della sua esistenza di ‘bello’ dinanzi a cui le donne, giovani o mature, si inchinano, Chéri percepisce una vaga inquietudine: «Non distingueva i punti precisi in cui il tempo, con tocchi impercettibili, segna su un bel viso l’ora della perfezione e poi quella di una bellezza più evidente, che annuncia già la maestà di un declino». E quel declino maestoso vivremo in questo libro, dove la punta avvelenata della storia di Chéri emerge con fredda chiarezza, come la canna di una pistola, dalla prosa avvolgente, atmosferica, precisa di Colette.