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Colette · 2023
Two interconnected novels (Cheri, 1920; La Fin de Cheri, 1926) depicting a complex love affair between a young man and a middle-aged woman in the world of Parisian courtesans. Written in Colette's distinctive lyrical prose, the work explores desire, sensuality, and the passage of time with psychological depth and period charm.
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Desire between an aging courtesan and her beautiful young lover exposes how erotic power and mortal time destroy each other from the inside.
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Patron said: 'if I was a woman I'd say: I'll come back again in ten years' time.' The young body owed to her its renewed strength.
CLC-RC-027She had to clasp her hands to prevent their seizing hold of him. He guessed this, perhaps, and did not move away.
CLC-RC-101mortality
Twenty-five, but at the outer corners of the eye — two incisions traced by the lightest, the most relentless, of fingers.
CLC-RC-046She made no effort to defend herself against his severe inspection; muscular effort required to keep her body still.
CLC-RC-151grief
A movement of her left arm, which bent automatically to hold a sleeping head, brought back all her agony.
CLC-RC-042He seized hold of his past to squeeze out every remaining drop upon his empty, arid present — a prolonged, sheltered, oriental adolescence.
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