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KRISTEVA, JULIA. Colette. Columbia Univ. (European Perspectives). Jul. 2004. c.448p. tr. from French by Jane Marie Todd. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-231-12896-7. $35. LIT
French writer Colette's last word was "look." Perhaps it should have been "devour," for she lived voluptuously. Colette did not want simply a glimpse of life but a firm grasp of it. She was married three times, participated in an aristocratic Parisian lesbian subculture, and wrote for World War II Vichy journals while trying to prevent her third husband (a Jew) from being deported. This scholarly biography, published to …