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Le Blé en Herbe
Hardcover
Series: Colette
ISBN13: 9782384554898
Publisher: Alicia Editions
Published: Dec 5 2024
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: French
Colette remains one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century French literature, celebrated for her poetic sensitivity, psychological depth, and luminous prose. With delicate precision, she captures the beauty of nature and the fragile intensity of human emotion.
In Green Wheat (Le Blé en herbe), she portrays the awakening of desire between two adolescents spending the summer by the sea in Brittany. Innocence gives way to longing, friendship to jealousy, and childhood to the unsettling discovery of love. Through subtle shifts of feeling and atmosphere, Colette traces the fragile threshold between youth and adulthood.
Sensual yet restrained, intimate yet universal, this novel offers a profound meditation on first love, memory, and the fleeting passage of time. A landmark of literary coming-of-age fiction, it continues to resonate with modern readers.1 different editions
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