The Vagabond (Annotated)

Colette's The Vagabond is a finely observed novel of artistic independence, desire, and self-possession, centered on Renée Néré, a divorced music-hall performer who must choose between romantic security and the precarious freedom of the stage. Written in a supple, sensuous prose that mingles irony with lyrical precision, the book belongs to the early twentieth-century French tradition of psycholog...