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Colette My Literary Mother

Roberts, Michèle
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192858214
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
326 gr
Høyde
15 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
223 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter
Roberts, Michèle

Biographical note

Michèle Roberts has published fifteen novels and her most recent is Cut Out (2021). Her novel Daughters of the House (1993) won the W.H. Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has published three collections of short stories and eight of poetry, as well as two memoirs and one collection of essays, Food, Sex & God: on Inspiration and Writing (1998). With the artist Caroline Isgar, she has published four artist's books. She has written two plays, both of which were performed, and one short film for Channel 4.

Colette My Literary Mother

Roberts, Michèle
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Roberts, Michèle
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
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This is critical thinking that is intimate, enchanting, and necessary.

Deborah Levy

I adored lingering over this book. Michèle Roberts is a delightful guide to Colette, reminding us of the pleasures of reading and re-reading a beloved author, attempting to understand how she manages to be so beguiling. Devotees and neophytes alike will find much to treasure here.

Lauren Elkin, Author and translator

Roberts offers intimate reflections about her connection to Colette.

Kirkus

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Insightful close readings inform a fervent homage.

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This reader wanted to remain in the rich night of the book, and for day not to break the spell

Alice Blackhurst, The TLS

The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of childhood, sex, and landscapes. In this book, Michèle Roberts examines how Colette invents new forms to express her unsettling content on desire, perversion, ageing, and different forms of love. Delving into four keys texts, Roberts explores Colette's willingness to break open taboos about older woman and desire, as well as hidden and forbidden aspects of human longings and pleasures. Through these re-readings, Roberts discovers that Colette's work is even more entrancing, more disturbing, and more original than she first thought.
Les mer
Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and memoirist Michèle Roberts tells of her experience of reading the novels of French writer Colette, whose work has inspired and encouraged her throughout her own writing life.
Les mer
Introduction: Re-Reading Colette 1: Mother-House 2: Mother Remembered 3: Mother Re-Found and Rejected 4: Unmothered Untethered
This is critical thinking that is intimate, enchanting, and necessary.
Michèle Roberts has published fifteen novels and her most recent is Cut Out (2021). Her novel Daughters of the House (1993) won the W.H. Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has published three collections of short stories and eight of poetry, as well as two memoirs and one collection of essays, Food, Sex & God: on Inspiration and Writing (1998). With the artist Caroline Isgar, she has published four artist's books. She has written two plays, both of which were performed, and one short film for Channel 4.
Les mer
The My Reading series offers personal models of what it is like to care about particular authors and works, and to show their effect upon a reader's own thinking and development A perfect introduction for readers new to Colette's work Michèle Roberts applies a lifetime of writerly experience to reflect on how Colette has inspired and encouraged her throughout her own writing life Champions Colette as a writer for our times Explores Colette's work as a re-telling of the Christian founding myth of paradise, with the beloved, desired mother at its heart Discusses Colette's mix of fiction, memoir, and letters in Break of Day, her use of the horror genre mixed with apparent autobiography in The Rainy Moon, her mixing of fairy tale and autobiography in La Maison de Claudine, and her breaking of taboos around older woman and desire in Cheri
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This is critical thinking that is intimate, enchanting, and necessary.

Deborah Levy

I adored lingering over this book. Michèle Roberts is a delightful guide to Colette, reminding us of the pleasures of reading and re-reading a beloved author, attempting to understand how she manages to be so beguiling. Devotees and neophytes alike will find much to treasure here.

Lauren Elkin, Author and translator

Roberts offers intimate reflections about her connection to Colette.

Kirkus

Se alle

Insightful close readings inform a fervent homage.

Kirkus

This reader wanted to remain in the rich night of the book, and for day not to break the spell

Alice Blackhurst, The TLS

The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of childhood, sex, and landscapes. In this book, Michèle Roberts examines how Colette invents new forms to express her unsettling content on desire, perversion, ageing, and different forms of love. Delving into four keys texts, Roberts explores Colette's willingness to break open taboos about older woman and desire, as well as hidden and forbidden aspects of human longings and pleasures. Through these re-readings, Roberts discovers that Colette's work is even more entrancing, more disturbing, and more original than she first thought.
Les mer
Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and memoirist Michèle Roberts tells of her experience of reading the novels of French writer Colette, whose work has inspired and encouraged her throughout her own writing life.
Les mer
Introduction: Re-Reading Colette 1: Mother-House 2: Mother Remembered 3: Mother Re-Found and Rejected 4: Unmothered Untethered
This is critical thinking that is intimate, enchanting, and necessary.
Michèle Roberts has published fifteen novels and her most recent is Cut Out (2021). Her novel Daughters of the House (1993) won the W.H. Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has published three collections of short stories and eight of poetry, as well as two memoirs and one collection of essays, Food, Sex & God: on Inspiration and Writing (1998). With the artist Caroline Isgar, she has published four artist's books. She has written two plays, both of which were performed, and one short film for Channel 4.
Les mer
The My Reading series offers personal models of what it is like to care about particular authors and works, and to show their effect upon a reader's own thinking and development A perfect introduction for readers new to Colette's work Michèle Roberts applies a lifetime of writerly experience to reflect on how Colette has inspired and encouraged her throughout her own writing life Champions Colette as a writer for our times Explores Colette's work as a re-telling of the Christian founding myth of paradise, with the beloved, desired mother at its heart Discusses Colette's mix of fiction, memoir, and letters in Break of Day, her use of the horror genre mixed with apparent autobiography in The Rainy Moon, her mixing of fairy tale and autobiography in La Maison de Claudine, and her breaking of taboos around older woman and desire in Cheri
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192858214
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
326 gr
Høyde
15 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
223 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter
Roberts, Michèle

Biographical note

Michèle Roberts has published fifteen novels and her most recent is Cut Out (2021). Her novel Daughters of the House (1993) won the W.H. Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has published three collections of short stories and eight of poetry, as well as two memoirs and one collection of essays, Food, Sex & God: on Inspiration and Writing (1998). With the artist Caroline Isgar, she has published four artist's books. She has written two plays, both of which were performed, and one short film for Channel 4.

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