Chri and the End of Chri Colette
Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume.Colette's Chri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chri (1926), are widely…
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Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume.Colette's Chri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chri (1926), are widely considered her masterpieces. In sensuous, elegant prose, the two novels explore the evolving inner lives and the intimate relationship of an unlikely couple: La de Lonval, a middle-aged former courtesan, and Fred Peloux, twenty-five years her junior, known as Chri. The two have been involved for years, and it is time for Chri to get on with life, to make something of himself, but he, the personification of male beauty and vanity, doesn't know how to go about it. It is time, too, for La to let go ofChri and the sensual life that has been hers, and yet this is more easily resolved than done. Chri marries, but once married he is restless and is inevitably drawn back