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A review by aggieags17
Claudine in Paris by Colette
4.0
Writing: lovely. Claudine: my fave. Gay cousin: iconic. Weird maid obsessed with sex: hilarious. 17 year old marrying her best friend's 40 year old dad after establishing him as a father figure? YIIIIIIIIKES!
Okay so I have to give it some leeway because it was from 1901, and for a woman who adamantly said she hated feminism, it contained a lot of ground-breaking content and gave French women a voice in literature. I adored "Claudine at School," and I also adored this one, up until the last couple chapters, where it all made me very uncomfortable and even included the phrase "Free women are not women at all." Even stranger, she wrote the beginning of their romance in a really cute way--if he was an entirely different person, it'd be sweet. But this...no. My sister told me that I can appreciate the work as a whole while still sustaining that that one part sucked. So that's what I'm going to go with, because that's how I feel about it, but that ending, though written as a happy one, left me with a gross taste in my mouth. Yikes. Delete that, and it's great! Okay. I guess I just read that....just...father and lover should not be used in the same sentence. No. ✌️
Okay so I have to give it some leeway because it was from 1901, and for a woman who adamantly said she hated feminism, it contained a lot of ground-breaking content and gave French women a voice in literature. I adored "Claudine at School," and I also adored this one, up until the last couple chapters, where it all made me very uncomfortable and even included the phrase "Free women are not women at all." Even stranger, she wrote the beginning of their romance in a really cute way--if he was an entirely different person, it'd be sweet. But this...no. My sister told me that I can appreciate the work as a whole while still sustaining that that one part sucked. So that's what I'm going to go with, because that's how I feel about it, but that ending, though written as a happy one, left me with a gross taste in my mouth. Yikes. Delete that, and it's great! Okay. I guess I just read that....just...father and lover should not be used in the same sentence. No. ✌️