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- ISBN 9780192858214
- Weight: 326g
- Dimensions: 146 x 15mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2024
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling.
Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of childhood, sex, and landscapes.
In this book, Michèle Roberts examines how Colette invents new forms to express her unsettling content on desire, perversion, ageing, and different forms of love. Delving into four key texts, Roberts explores Colette's willingness to break open taboos about older woman and desire, as well as hidden and forbidden aspects of human longings and pleasures.
Through these re-readings, Roberts discovers that Colette's work is even more entrancing, more disturbing, and more original than she first thought.
Michèle Roberts has published fifteen novels and her most recent is Cut Out (2021). Her novel Daughters of the House (1993) won the W.H. Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has published three collections of short stories and eight of poetry, as well as two memoirs and one collection of essays, Food, Sex & God: on Inspiration and Writing (1998), and most recently two cookery books. With the artist Caroline Isgar, she has published four artist's books. She has written two plays, both of which were performed, and one short film for Channel 4.
