Colette

Broschiertes Buch

The Vagabond

Beschreibung

A new translation into English of The Vagabond by Colette tells the story of thirty-three-year-old Renà e Nà rà as she embarks on a stage career. The novel offers a look behind the scenes from a woman's perspective, a view enabled by Colette's own simultaneous experience as writer and dancer.

Autor

Frances Egan is a translator and lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. She has published widely on representations of gender, culture and feminism in the French and Francophone context. Helen Southworth is a professor in the English Department at the University of Oregon. She is the co-founder of the digital initiative the Modernist Archives Publishing Project or MAPP. Her areas of expertise include modernism, comparative literature, Virginia Woolf, life-writing and archives. She is the author of The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette (2004) and Fresca: A Life in the Making (2017).

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 127mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9780198881582
• ISBN-10: 0198881584
• Artikelnr.: 72804983

Rezensionen

A mistress of metaphor and sparking detail, and with more punch than Proust ... Throughout this extraordinary - irreplaceable! - novel, Colette provides many exquisitely timed funny-sad turns ... And no one writes about relationships as perceptively as Colette Guardian