Colette
Hardcover | Pages: 186 pages Rating: 3.52 | 1319 Users | 120 Reviews
Details Epithetical Books The Ripening Seed
| Title | : | The Ripening Seed |
| Author | : | Colette |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 186 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1955 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 1923) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Romance |
Narrative Supposing Books The Ripening Seed
In Ripening Seed Colette captures that precious, painful moment when childhood retreats at the onslaught of dawning knowledge and desire. Philippe and Vinca are childhood friends. In the glowing days and mist-filled nights of late summer on the Brittany coast, their deep-rooted love for each other loses its childhood simplicity. Philippe is destined to learn from experience, while Vinca, like all women the world over, is blessed, or cursed, with instinctive powers of perception and wisdom. Sharp and sad, haunted on every page by the sights, smells and sounds of the sea coast, this evocation of wounded, and wounding, innocence will be read with tears of sympathy and deep, lasting pleasure.Particularize Books During The Ripening Seed
| Original Title: | Le blé en herbe |
| ISBN: | 0374250693 (ISBN13: 9780374250690) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Zack Rogow (2005) |
Rating Epithetical Books The Ripening Seed
Ratings: 3.52 From 1319 Users | 120 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books The Ripening Seed
I thought this was a pretty irritating book, although the writing is not bad, and some of the imagery definitely good. Ok, so you definitely have to be in the mood for Colette to at all appreciate her, but still. This book focuses on two adolescent drama queens in the throes of turning from childhood inseparables to "I love you! Say something! Ah, you will never care! Did you imagine you could deceive me??" So that's difficult to like. It's not as completely trashy as her first books (Claudine,2019s
*WARNING - You're about to head into Spoiler Town, please turn around if this is not your intended destination**Disclaimer - this is required reading for university*Well, this has to be one of the most uncomfortable books I have ever read.Why, I hear you ask?An over thirties woman seduces a sixteen year old boy.Over thirties.Sixteen.CAN YOU SEE THE PROBLEM HERE?Our lecturer warned us that this book was sexual, and my GOD it was sexual, althought Colette has this uncanny ability to describe very
I'm so mad. I hate cheating stories. And what I hate even more than dudes cheating is when said dudes spent the whole novel complaining that they are unhappy and feel guitly. Idea for you dude: STOP CHEATING ON YOUR GIRLFRIEND.
Densely poetic, its peculiar structure no doubt down to its original serialisation, like a series of polaroids which primarily focus on the male character but occasionally, unexpectedly, give us a close up of one of the two key female characters. Brims with guarded sensuality that only really takes off in the final chapter where the central conflict is somewhat resolved, but leaves us with an unromantic, and therefore probably truer, view of love than any number of Mills and Boon stories.
for me: go find another Colette book to read. But beautiful description of the coast of Britanny.
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