The Cat (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Colette
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1930’s
- Setting: Neuilly and central Paris
- Principal Characters: Alain Amparat, Camille Malmert, Saha
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Marriage, Class consciousness, 1930’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Pregnancy, Cats, Lifestyles, Nostalgia, Immaturity
- Locales: Paris, France, Neuilly, France
The Novel
The Cat is a short novel about the rapid decline of a marriage. Both the young people involved, Alain Amparat and Camille Malmert, come from prosperous manufacturing families. The novel opens a week before the wedding at Alain’s spacious but run-down old house at Neuilly, where he lives with his widowed mother and some ancient servants. Part of the house is being converted and modernized for the young couple. Until it is ready, however, they plan to live in a small studio at the top of a new nine-story apartment block. The apartment, lent to them by a...
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