The Vagabond

by Colette, Enid McLeod (Translator), Judith Thurman (Introduction)

Overview

Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his love and the comforts of marriage. A provincial tour puts distance between them and enables Renée, in a moving series of leters and meditations, to resolve alone the struggle between her need to be loved and her need to have a life and work of her own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374528041
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	09/05/2001
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	252
Sales rank:	183,991
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Born in 1873 in France, Colette was the author of many acclaimed novels noted for their intimate style. Other Colette titles from FSG include Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances, The Complete Claudine, Chéri and The Last of Chéri, and The Complete Stories of Colette. She died in 1954.

Editorial Reviews

The paradoxes of great literature are those of human nature, and Colette is nothing if not human . . . Accessible and elusive; greedy and austere; courageous and timid; subversive and complacent; scorchingly honest and sublimely mendacious; an inspired consoler and an existential pessimist—these are the qualities of the artist and the woman. Its is time to rediscover them.” —From the Introduction

“The Vagabond, one of the first and best feminist novels ever written, is that rare thing: a great book which is also inspiring.” —Erica Jong

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