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joie de vivre; Take a trip to France without ever leaving your chaise with these memorable reads.(Claudine's House)(Book review)
Byline: Megan O'grady
A wisteria-covered ch,teau in Burgundy is the evocative setting of Claudine's House (Hesperus), Colette's irresistible memoir of growing up with her doting mother and a menagerie of eccentric pets. Written 20 years after the novels that made her famous, these Proustian snapshots of a lost Eden-reprinted with a foreword by Doris Lessing-are all the more poignant in light of the unhappy marriage that followed. Harvest season in Provence lends a pastoral backdrop to Martin Gayford's The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles (Little, Brown). In the brief time they shared a cottage, the two painted some of their most celebrated masterpieces-a _creative idyll shattered by Van Gogh's tragic breakdown, which Gayford credibly attributes to bipolar disorder. Phyllis Birnbaum's Glory
in a Line: A Life of Foujita-The Artist Caught Between East & West (Faber and Faber) recalls the flamboyant and gifted Japanese-born painter who, in his trademark eyeglasses and hoop earrings, became the toast of Montparnasse-_until the onset of World War II. The eponymous suburban residence in Rosemary Sullivan's Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille (HarperCollins) served as a safe haven for dozens of artists and intellectuals on the Nazi hit list-including Max Ernst, Hannah Arendt, and Andre Breton. With tremendous suspense and emotional pull, Sullivan recounts the little-known story of Varian Fry, the intrepid young American who sheltered them-helping them and hundreds more escape from Vichy France. ...
- Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women. (Reviews). (book review)
- Biography Hansen, Helynne Hollstein June 22, 2001 700+ words
...Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP...tradition, three relatively obscure French women essayed through novels, letters...along with such contemporaries as George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, Hortense...
- George Sand, a cote d'Eugene Sue.(George Sand's 'Consuelo' and Eugene Sue's...
- Magazine article from: The Romanic Review Jullien, Dominique May 1, 2005 700+ words
...relations, depuis longtemps tendues, de George Sand avec l'editeur Louis Veron du Constitutionnel...Angibault trop avance politiquement. George Sand excedee finit par lui proposer de retirer...plus courtoisement; en effet, assure George Sand, "je serai toujours flattee d'ecrire...
- Post-scriptum: George Sand >>.(2004 - Bicentenial of birth of George Sand)
- Magazine article from: The Romanic Review Reid, Martine May 1, 2005 700+ words
...annee du bicentenaire de la naissance de George Sand a Nohant, << l'annee George Sand >>. Cette decision depassait...personne, a l'oeuvre et a la pensee de George Sand sous diverses formes : la premiere par...
- Bordas, Eric, ed. George Sand: Ecritures et representations.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies Laporte, Dominique September 22, 2005 700+ words
Bordas, Eric, ed. George Sand: Ecritures et representations...Eric Bordas a reuni sous le titre: George Sand, ecritures et representations une...bicentenaire de la naissance de George Sand, contribuent a preparer l'avenir...
- George Sand, pratiques et imaginaires de l'ecriture: colloque international de...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review O'Dea, Michael April 1, 2008 700+ words
George Sand, pratiques et imaginaires de l'ecriture...essays is one of the main fruits of the George Sand bicentenary in 2004, which was marked...considerations, but in the case of George Sand everything converges to justify public...
- George Sand: Dualidades de una escritora.(El Angel)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) August 29, 2004 700+ words
...el 2004, dedicado exclusivamente a George Sand? Como lo seal el Ministro de Cultura...el bicentenario de su nacimiento: "George Sand, mujer excepcional, artista, escritora...de crear. Pero por encima de todo, George Sand es una mujer reconocida en los ideales...
- What a woman; George Sand.(France remembers George Sand)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 31, 2004 700+ words
...few lives are as well known as that of George Sand. Cross-dresser, divorcee, writer...career. The renaissance of interest in George Sand began in 1976, the centenary of her...the final tome, published this year. George Sand's work is of uneven quality. No wonder...
- L'indepassable famille: de Lelia a 1848.(family in works of French author,...
- Magazine article from: The Romanic Review Riot-Sarcey, Michele May 1, 2005 700+ words
...domestique a la vie publique : chez George Sand, rien ne semble echapper a l'engagement...la difficulte de cerner la pensee de George Sand sur la famille dont l'apparence...Loin d'avoir epuise l'ceuvre de George Sand--a peine ai-je travaille quelques...