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La retraite sentimentale
Paperback
Series: Colette
ISBN13: 9782384554973
Publisher: Alicia Editions
Published: Dec 5 2024
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: French
Colette remains one of the defining voices of twentieth-century French literature, celebrated for her poetic sensitivity, psychological depth, and luminous prose. With delicate precision, she paints vivid emotional portraits, captures the beauty of nature, and reveals the subtle complexity of human feeling.
In The Sentimental Retreat, the final volume of the Claudine series, the heroine withdraws from Paris to a quiet house surrounded by green landscapes, turning inward to explore her most intimate thoughts. Between memories and reflections, Colette presents a gallery of vivid characters, each burdened with desire, regret, and longing. With disarming lucidity and honesty, she reveals doubts, fears, and hopes, inviting the reader into a profound meditation on love, solitude, and the search for meaning.
Delicate yet deeply moving, this work is more than a recollection of the past-it is a mirror held up to modern life. Claudine's questions, uncertainties, and aspirations resonate with enduring emotional truth.1 different editions
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