Manin, Lisa
Colette- Un Pionniere, Entre Scandales Et Quete De Libe
"Presses Universitaires de France and Frmeaux & Associs offer this biography of Colette, analyzed and explained by Lise Manin, an alumnus of ENS Lyon and agrge in history. She conducted her doctoral research at the Centre d'Histoire du XIXe siècle (Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne). Lise Manin presents a biography of the writer Colette, whose extraordinary life is revealed through the many sources she has drawn on and her autobiographical work. The author traces the life of a woman whose multifaceted work questioned gender norms in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, sparking infatuations and scandals. A key figure in the Parisian literary and theatrical scene, Colette loved unconventionally, married three times and lived her bisexuality publicly. As a novelist, pantomime artist, journalist, actress, film and drama critic and beauty products retailer, she was driven by boundless creativity and a capacity for constant reinvention. From this rich and free life, we are left with her works, which have inspired new generations of writers such as Franoise Sagan, Jean Genet, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Claude COLOMBINI FRMEAUX"