Gigi Paperback – January 1, French Edition by. Colette (Author) › Visit Amazon's Colette Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Colette (Author) out of 5 stars. 5 ratings/5(5). Gigi, who is not yet 16, has been raised by women who are all just a cut above the world of the cou Colette, drawing on her own experiences from the Parisian demimonde, steps back just a little from this milieu to provide a tale that is more sentimental than most of her other works/5. Gigi, comedy of manners by Colette, published in While Gigi’s mother works as a second-rate theatre singer, Gigi is left in the care of her grandmother and great-aunt, both retired courtesans. They endeavour to teach Gigi the family business: pleasing men.
Set in , Gigi is Colette's homage to La Belle Époque, with caricatures in her novel inspired by Sem's caricatures (Dunant 47). A coming-of-age love story threaded with comedic elements, Gigi tells how an innocent year-old girl, the daughter of courtesans, is expected to display the proper etiquette of an aristocratic lady. Gigi is about a young woman who creates a new world where love is important, destroying an old order where sexuality was a commercial commodity. Ward Jouve, Nicole. Colette. Bloomington: Indiana. This detailed literature summary also contains Related Titles on Gigi by Colette. Preview of Gigi Summary: Since the eighteenth century, fictional works, chiefly the novel, had dealt with the matter of younger women and girls having affairs with older men — sometimes with pleasant outcomes, as in Gigi, sometimes with unfortunate conclusions.
Gigi (pronounced) is a novella by French writer Colette. The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan and her relationship with the wealthy cultured man named Gaston who falls in love with her and eventually marries her. Gigi is a charming story, the movie tracked it pretty closely, just adding a few scenes and characters and a perfect musical score. With refreshing realism and sweet undertone of satire, Colette wrote a story of what one publisher refers to as “the politics of love”. Gigi, one of Colette’s last works, was written in , at the height of the Nazi occupation of Paris. Colette, bedridden with the excruciating arthritis which was to plague her until her death in , and shaken by the arrest and internment of her third husband in a concentration camp, may understandably have been glad to return to an earlier and happier time when she created this last memorable gamine heroine.
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