Claudine In Paris
  • Published: 31 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446475317
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Claudine In Paris

  • Colette
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31 May 2011
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6 Jul 2001
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The second book in the Claudine series which became a cultural phenomenon in early 20th century France - featured in the new, acclaimed film COLETTE, starring Keira Knightley, out Jan 2019.

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.

The second book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.

Seventeen-year-old Claudine is in despair having left her beloved village Montigny for a new life in Paris. Comforted by her devoted maid Melie, her slug-obsessed Papa, and the trustworthy cat Fanchette, Claudine’s instinctive curiosity gradually leads to an awakened interest in the city. Ruthless and sensual, Claudine records her sharp observations and adventures amongst the intriguing characters that surround her, evoking all the glamour and excitement of Parisian life.

Written with striking realism Claudine in Paris is an inspiring portrait of a precocious young girl on the brink of transformation into a woman for her, and our, time.
  • Published: 31 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446475317
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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Praise for Claudine In Paris

Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France

New York Times Book Review

A perfectionist in her every word

Spectator

Her prose is rich, flawless, intricate, audacious and utterly beautiful

Raymond Mortimer

Everything that Colette touched became human

The Times

This most French of all French writers . . . One thinks of her as the female voice of Paris . . . It's as if all the house fronts of Paris were cut away and we could see men and women talking, dressing, brooding, loving

New York Times

She has been compared to a 20th-century female Montaigne, and it is true that her books offer a manual on how to live fearlessly and joyfully – greedily alive to every sensation and experience

Guardian

Accessible and elusive; greedy and austere; courageous and timid; subversive and complacent; scorchingly honest and sublimely mendacious; an inspired consoler and an existential pessimist—these are the qualities of the artist and the woman. It is time to rediscover them.

Judith Thurman, biographer of Colette