The Collected Stories of Colette (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Colette
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction, Character study
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Class consciousness, Social life, Human behavior, Vaudeville
Form and Content
Called a psychologist of the senses and a poet of the sensuous, Colette is considered, along with Marcel Proust, Albert Camus, and Émile Zola, to be one of France’s premier contributors to early twentieth century literature. A prolific and disciplined artist, Colette molded a world of characters peopling eighteen novels and more than one hundred short stories, and she also wrote plays, literary criticism, and essays.
She is considered a pioneer in the genre of social realism so popular in her era and a model for the French libertine movement that...
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