Sido
Colette(Author)
El Acantilado (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 4. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
979-13-87964-18-4 (ISBN)
Description
You have inherited my tastes, my treasure. You adore cataclysms, the breath of the wind through the trees--that love for beautiful trees--as well as rivers and the sea, wrote Sidonie Landoy to her daughter Colette in a letter dated 1907. In response, the writer offers her mother a portrait of a free and passionate woman, devoted to her children, to nature, and to animals. Orbiting around her are her husband--the enigmatic Captain, an inveterate reader--her two daughters, and her two "wild" sons, who leave home to roam the countryside... A truly beautiful autobiographical account through which the great writer weaves together the memories of a happy childhood--a narrative that embraces both nostalgia and the celebration of life.
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Spanish
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
ISBN-13
979-13-87964-18-4 (9791387964184)
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, 1873 - París, 1954), figura extravagante y enigmática, fue una de las mejores escritoras del siglo XX. A los veintisiete años inició la publicación de la popular serie de novelas Claudine (1900-1914), que, sin embargo, aparecieron bajo la firma de su marido, Henry Gauthier-Villars. Tras el divorcio, se ganó la vida como actriz y bailarina, y publicó un gran número de obras narrativas, entre las que destacan La vagabunda (1910), Chéri (1920; Acantilado, 2018), Sido (1929), La gata (1933; Acantilado, 2025) y Gigi (1944). Miembro de la Real Academia de Bélgica, fue asimismo la primera mujer en presidir la prestigiosa Academia Goncourt. Acantilado ha publicado además El quepis y otros relatos (2021).