{"product_id":"cheri-and-the-end-of-cheri","title":"Chéri and The End of Chéri","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1920 and 1926 respectively, Colette’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChéri\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe End of Chéri\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e form a subtle, unsparing portrait of love, beauty and the passage of time in early twentieth-century Paris. In the first novel, Fred Peloux, known as Chéri, is a beautiful, pampered young man involved with Léa de Lonval, a wealthy former courtesan nearly twenty-five years his senior; their intimate, playful world is unsettled when Chéri is expected to marry a younger woman. In the sequel, the consequences of their separation unfold against the changing social landscape of post-war France, as youth and age acquire new and painful meanings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith her characteristic precision, sensuality and dry wit, Colette examines the unequal bargains of desire and the ways beauty can become both privilege and burden. Léa emerges as a particularly compelling creation: self-possessed and perceptive, she confronts the prospect of ageing with a dignity that refuses easy sentiment, while Chéri struggles to imagine a life beyond the comforts of youth. Read together, the novels offer a remarkably clear-eyed meditation on attachment, vanity, loss and the passing of an era, confirming Colette’s extraordinary ability to reveal emotional complexity through the smallest gestures and most intimate details.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I was for you the most beautiful, the best of women, and you loved me?”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eColette, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChéri\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChéri and The End of Chéri\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Colette’s most marvelous and mature reckonings with age and youth.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Becca Rothfeld, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBookforum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64052484407626,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/cheri-and-the-end-of-cheri","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}