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The realization that Colette was a major literary talent is apparent on every page. --Irish Times
Retreat From Love is an important book in the Colette canon, for it shows Colette becoming aware of the value of her feeling of oneness with nature and learning to express it simply and poetically. --Times Literary Supplement
With languid abandonment Colette descibes sexual games played by three aristocrats . . . This English translation admirably captures the eroticism of the prose. --The Times
Retreat From Love is an important book in the Colette canon, for it shows Colette becoming aware of the value of her feeling of oneness with nature and learning to express it simply and poetically. --Times Literary Supplement
With languid abandonment Colette descibes sexual games played by three aristocrats . . . This English translation admirably captures the eroticism of the prose. --The Times
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Retreat From Love is one of the best of Colette s celebrated Claudine novels. It was the first to be written under her own name, without the influence of her husband, the Svengali Willy, from whom she had recently separated. A tale of the sexual and emotional machinations of three upper-class youths in a remote farmhouse, Retreat From Love shows the work of a newly mature Colette, a novelist now to be judged by the highest standards. In an isolated farmhouse in the Jura, Claudine awaits her husband Renaud s return from a Swiss sanatorium. She distracts herself by encouraging her young friend Annie to recount salacious episodes from her love life. When Renaud s homosexual son Marcel arrives Claudine sets about matchmaking, a fiasco she bitterly regrets. With Renaud s death, Claudine s ennui is transmuted into resigned suffering. But she gradually allows the rhythm and beauty of the natural world to reawaken her desire to live.
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As with all of Colette's work, this book is beautifully written and the translation,excellent. Don't let the title put you off, this is not a romance. I particularly like this Peter Owen collection, which captures the mood of the books brilliantly with their simple but effective design. If you have never read Colette, you have missed out on one of the greatest creative minds in literature; I like to think of her as the french Virginia Woolfe.
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The Final book of the Claudine Novels. . . .
12 Aug 1999
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I was so happy to find this book after thinking that 'Claudine and Annie' of the four Claudine books was the last we could read of her. In this book, Colette expands upon the friendship between Claudine and Annie, and shows what becomes of the latter's timid personality and what stepson Marcel has developed into. But Claudine is the same delightful Claudine, who writes of pain, of friendship, of personal relationships, of nature, of animals freely now, uninhibited by society. For how flowing and relaxing the book reads, there are some major changes to the plot, most noticably in the end. A lovely book for anyone who wants to keep up with Claudine, or who enjoys the later works of Colette.
Love all of Colette's books!
17 Mar 2011
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I've been reading Colette for the past almost 7 years. I've collected a lot of her books online through Amazon and have never been disappointed. I really became a Colette fan!
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