by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette · Editions 84 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782277120025
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«Le blé en herbe» is the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, published by Editions 84 in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Phil and Vinca, two teenagers who have known each other since childhood, spend the summer in a village on the coast of Brittany. Between swims in the sea, outings and picnics, they notice that their bodies and feelings are changing, and they experience the awakening of desire and physical attraction that mark the end of childhood.
The work was originally published in 1923. This French edition is from 1993 and includes the complete text.
For readers of French classics and novels about initiation into desire and the adult world.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.
