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Colette (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Much of Colette’s work defies ready classification. Aside from creating tales that are of such a length as to make it difficult to decide whether to term them short novels or long short stories (the term nouvelle, which Colette often used for her work, means both “novelette” and “novella”), Colette also frequently mixed fiction with fact in a confusing blend. La Maison de Claudine (1922; My Mother’s House, 1953), for example, can pass for fiction; however, the book is essentially a series of sketches from Colette’s life,...
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