Claudine in Paris (Annotated)

Claudine in Paris, the second novel in Colette's celebrated Claudine sequence, transports its sharp-eyed heroine from the provincial schoolroom of Montigny to the more ambiguous social and erotic terrain of the capital. Written in a supple, intimate first-person style, the novel blends diary-like immediacy with ironic social observation, tracing Claudine's convalescence, family entanglements, and ...