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  • Chéri and The End of Chéri

  • By: Colette
  • Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
  • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Chéri and The End of Chéri

By: Colette
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An exquisite new translation of Colette’s tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man.

Chéri and its sequel, The End of Chéri, mark Colette’s finest achievements, in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of the Belle Époque, Chéri tells the story of Léa, a courtesan at the end of a successful career, and her lover, the beautiful but emotionally opaque Chéri. Chéri will soon enter into an arranged marriage, ending their six-year affair, which—they will each realize too late—has been the one real love of their lives. The End of Chéri picks up their story in the aftermath of the First World War; as a psychically wounded Chéri begins an inexorable descent, he finds he cannot return to the Léa he left.

With a preface by the acclaimed Lydia Davis, Rachel Careau’s lean, attentive translation restores to these classic novels their taut, remarkably modern style—the essence of Colette’s genius.
©2022 Rachel Careau. Foreword © 2022 by Lydia Davis (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
Classics Fiction Women's Fiction
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Terrible terrible translation

Beautiful and favourite book completely ruined for any listeners by awful translation and ghastly reading

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Breathtakingly beautiful.

This new translation by Rachel Careau has finally honoured Colette's masterpiece. The narration by Lydia Davis deserves an award for the exquisite timing in dialogue and impeccable characterisation. I was so moved by this audiobook that as soon as it finished, I returned to relisten to its beauty again.

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