A review by mydreamsaresilent
Chéri by Colette

5.0

I couldn't tell you why but I have a fondness for this story. The way the author writes, her descriptions, the epoch/setting of this story - I dig it all. It's a very specific reader who would enjoy a story like this one, so I can appreciate how many wouldn't like it, but I really enjoyed it through and through. Full disclosure I saw the movie first, loathed the lead who played Fred, but the sumptuous sets and fashion stuck with me and informed my imagination while reading this. The translation was adequate. I'll say it a million times, I never like when an English translation takes liberties, though I get that it's necessary at times, I just love the flow of the French language and it's exactly that magic that gets lost when translated to English.