Gigi (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Colette
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: 1899
- Setting: Paris, France
- Genres: Short fiction, Bildungsroman, Fiction of manners
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Marriage, Manners or customs, Paris, Women’s issues, Women, Gossip, Belle époque
- Locales: Paris, France
Characters Discussed
Gilberte (zheel-BEHRT), known as Gigi (zhee-ZHEE), a charming fifteen-year-old girl who is being educated by her great-aunt and her grandmother to become a successful courtesan. Gigi has the legs and feet of a ballet dancer: heronlike legs, with high-arched insteps, perfect oval-shaped kneecaps, and slender calves. Her eyes are dark blue, and her hair of ash-blonde ringlets has magnificent fullness. She looks like Robin Hood, a carved angel, or a boy in skirts; she least resembles a nearly grown girl. She dresses in typical French schoolgirl fashion,...
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