Little Faun Face
Jenny Turner: There was Colette, 5 January 2023
‘Chéri’ and ‘The End of Chéri’
by Colette, translated by Paul Eprile.
NYRB, 236 pp., £13.99, November,978 1 68137 670 7 Show More
by Colette, translated by Paul Eprile.
NYRB, 236 pp., £13.99, November,
‘Chéri’ and ‘The End of Chéri’
by Colette, translated by Rachel Careau.
Norton, 336 pp., £21.99, May,978 1 324 05205 0 Show More
by Colette, translated by Rachel Careau.
Norton, 336 pp., £21.99, May,
“... readers don’t much bother with Colette? Lydia Davis suggests it might be, in her introduction to Rachel Careau’s new Chéri. Another reason may be the quality of some of the translations of her work: Roger Senhouse’s widely used version from 1951, as Careau points out, has phrases like ‘Oh, my sainted ... ”
