The Ripening Seed (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Colette
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Social realism
- Time of Work: One summer in the early 1920’s
- Setting: A summer house on the coast of Britanny
- Principal Characters: Vinca Ferret, Phillipe Audebert, Madame Camille Dalleray
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Values, Teenagers, France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, 1920’s
- Locales: Brittany, France
The Novel
The Ripening Seed explores the coming of age of its two main characters, Vinca Ferret, a fifteen-year-old French girl with “eyes the color of April showers,” and Phillipe Audebert, a sixteen-year-old French boy in the “full vigour” of youth and impatience. As the novel unfolds, the omniscient narrator moves back and forth between the thoughts and actions of Vinca and Phillipe, revealing slowly the changes which turn these childhood friends into neophyte adolescent lovers. This is the fifteenth summer that their families have spent together in a...
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