Chéri/The Last of Chéri (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Colette
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1910’s; 1913 and 1919
- Setting: Paris and the French countryside
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Values, France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Marriage, Prostitution or prostitutes, Paris, 1910’s, Beauty, Obsession, World War I, Lifestyles, Generation gap, Middle age, Aging, Belle époque
- Locales: Paris, France
Characters Discussed
Chéri, 1920
Frédéric Peloux (fray-day- REEK puh-LEW), called Chéri (shayr-EE), an idle and moody twenty-five-year-old man. He has inherited a fortune. He is an extremely handsome man of medium height, with blue-black hair; dark eyes framed by thick, lustrous lashes; a disdainful but pretty mouth; unblemished white skin; and a hard, darkish chest shaped like a shield. To remove him from his dissipated life in Paris, he has been taken, in late adolescence, to Normandy by a friend of his mother, Léa de Lonval, an aging but still beautiful...
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