Thank you for these few precious frames. I think part of Colette's significance was that she was outside the establishment for a very long time, part of the demimonde, and yet trained herself to write "on command," as she phrased it. Her writing took me into a new world at a very young age. I found her language very beautiful even in translation, more so when I was finally able to read her in the original French. A unique writer.
hi Susan yes, i agree - to be an outsider and make the transition to being an insider (member of the L'Académie française and so on) is rather special - Genet in a very different way became part of the critically acclaimed, though he brought the outside inside - not an easy fit though. i read her at a very young age too and loved the for me new content for literature. i've never read her in French though - must do this soon.
My Beauceron (same breed as Colette's) Cdog sent me here, seems Colette wrote about her dog's breed with much love and adoration. It's the way I feel about Cdog.
This is the lady my Biological mother named me after I feel very honoured she named me after this lady,of course my name was changed when I was adopted. What an interesting lady.
Me gustan sus libros Cherie, el fin de Cherie y en los que narra sobre ssus gatos y perros, sobre su padre también. Pero no hay muchos audiolibros de ella. Gracias. 📚📘📓
hi Sima Yao, having retired, now writes books that are less purely academic - from personal anecdotal experience he draws out ideas which he then puts into a frame and examines - anthrology for everyone! in a sense the choreographers and composers you mention seem both past and something other - while Shostakovich is 'modern', 'the romance of the gadfly' is pure late C19 sentiment?
hi Sima come to think of it, you might even better like to talk to my friend Souchou Yao, an anthropologist recently retired from Sydney University and concentrating on writing books - he uses 'modernity' as one of the main frames he uses to examine a range of subjects, his book 'Culture, Modernity, and the State in Southeast Asia'
i'm more and more drawn to the personal/theoretical approach, qnd like Chou since i'm semi-retired and the straight jacket of academia has been loosened a bit! curiously when i lived in the UK the intelligentsia were considered queer folk who lived in ivory towers in Oxford and so on - when i was in France, they were considered part of the whole and people whose opinion was considered relevant to current issues - not a big distance in kilometres but so in other ways!
Sorry, John, I don't get you for one mile, and so, as you suppose, will hold out to my own craquelée - but sorry, when the world was find, we'll find our way out to hold other's opinions. Of which I'm sure. With love (hopefully)
@@mariannestoffers5067 looking back over my comment i have no idea what i meant - if any meaning is there at all! i guess it was nine years ago but. love back😀🥰
i don't think we did - others of course would disagree with us. it's not that easy to dismiss writer that are in the accepted canon - but it should be done more often (with reason of course), don't you think?
i'm not sure either - i always felt she was slight (i read the Claudine books as a kid) but the French literary establishment has pegged her much higher - and was elected a member of L'Académie française a bit like Genet, she had a life outside the conventional mainstream - as an exotic dancer in music hall - though her writing was not about this like it was with Genet
I love the personal/theoretical approach. I'm inclined that way too -- as you observed before! It might have to do with being from a 3rd world country where the idea of intelligentsia is still relevant. Shostakovich... so much to say. He even confused Stalin! You reminded me that I have never read The Gadfly. Promptly ordered it.
I'm very interested in the topic of Yao's book. There are many studies like that on different "developing" countries, like Iran. What I have in mind is less scholarly and theoretical though! I was watching Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet and thinking he is no less modern than Balanchine and Prokoviev no less than Stravinsky. And I can't think of anybody more "modern" then Shostakovich. And yet none of them are modernist. Don't you think?
@@DracRomania even in life she had a somewhat witch like appearance, which would be even more enhanced as a ghost, one that could rush out of her house and do terrible things to passers by! i read the Claudine books as a kid and loved them - so it was so exciting to see film of her
"Sans doute faut-il saluer en madame Colette la libératrice d'une psychologie féminine Cette libération du corps est surtout une libération sociale permettant à la femme de se débarrasser de la souffrance causée par l'homme et de sa soumission.
Certes, mais elle a aussi écrit "ma liberté me pèse, mon indépendance m''excède; ce que je cherche depuis des mois, c'était, sans m'en douter, un maître. Les femmes libres ne sont pas des femmes " (Claudine à Paris)
Cela l'aurait bien faite rire. Personne ne peut la mettre dans une case ceci ou cela. Relisez la intégralement en oubliant vos lunettes de formatage idéologique. Elle était bien plus libre que les féministes 2.0 qui, j'en suis certaine, l'aurait faite fuir. Elle a toujours aimé les hommes, l'amour et l'amitié et bien entendu, les animaux. Magnétique et ultra sensorielle, elle se sentait elle-même animale. Certainement pas militante !
@@isabellenicaud3725 EXACTEMENT ! Mais merci Isabelle !! Je suis tellement fatigué de toutes ces récupérations par des gens qui ne l'ont pas lue ou qui ne l'aiment pas comme nous l'aimons. Colette était, tout simplement.
My most favorite author, how this affected me! Love Collette and appreciate this touching and soothing tribute to her and her pets.
Thank you for these few precious frames. I think part of Colette's significance was that she was outside the establishment for a very long time, part of the demimonde, and yet trained herself to write "on command," as she phrased it. Her writing took me into a new world at a very young age. I found her language very beautiful even in translation, more so when I was finally able to read her in the original French. A unique writer.
One of my favourite French authors!
I was so happy to see this video. She was one of my favorite authors.
Great footage
isn't it!
tTHANK YOU!!!! I just read "THE HAND" and WOW!
pleasure - i loved Colette's books as a kid - still do!
Que história.... simplesmente maravilhosa!!!
hi Susan
yes, i agree - to be an outsider and make the transition to being an insider (member of the L'Académie française and so on) is rather special - Genet in a very different way became part of the critically acclaimed, though he brought the outside inside - not an easy fit though.
i read her at a very young age too and loved the for me new content for literature.
i've never read her in French though - must do this soon.
My Beauceron (same breed as Colette's) Cdog sent me here, seems Colette wrote about her dog's breed with much love and adoration. It's the way I feel about Cdog.
her love of animals is seen in the footage of her with them :)
This is the lady my Biological mother named me after I feel very honoured she named me after this lady,of course my name was changed when I was adopted. What an interesting lady.
would you have liked to keep your first name?
Me gustan sus libros Cherie, el fin de Cherie y en los que narra sobre ssus gatos y perros, sobre su padre también. Pero no hay muchos audiolibros de ella. Gracias. 📚📘📓
placer: me encantan los boks de Colette desde que era un adolescente
I just finished reading Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette. By. JUDITH THURMAN. Super good biography. I would totally suggest it.
thanks for the recommendation :)
hi Sima
Yao, having retired, now writes books that are less purely academic - from personal anecdotal experience he draws out ideas which he then puts into a frame and examines - anthrology for everyone!
in a sense the choreographers and composers you mention seem both past and something other - while Shostakovich is 'modern', 'the romance of the gadfly' is pure late C19 sentiment?
Claude Pairoux James
oui, Madame Colette était très en avance sur son temps dans ce
yes, she seems very modern today (oui, elle semble très moderne aujourd'hui)
hi Sima
come to think of it, you might even better like to talk to my friend Souchou Yao, an anthropologist recently retired from Sydney University and concentrating on writing books - he uses 'modernity' as one of the main frames he uses to examine a range of subjects, his book 'Culture, Modernity, and the State in Southeast Asia'
Good! I thought I was missing something.
i'm more and more drawn to the personal/theoretical approach, qnd like Chou since i'm semi-retired and the straight jacket of academia has been loosened a bit!
curiously when i lived in the UK the intelligentsia were considered queer folk who lived in ivory towers in Oxford and so on - when i was in France, they were considered part of the whole and people whose opinion was considered relevant to current issues - not a big distance in kilometres but so in other ways!
Sorry, John, I don't get you for one mile, and so, as you suppose, will hold out to my own craquelée - but sorry, when the world was find, we'll find our way out to hold other's opinions. Of which I'm sure. With love (hopefully)
@@mariannestoffers5067 looking back over my comment i have no idea what i meant - if any meaning is there at all! i guess it was nine years ago but. love back😀🥰
i don't think we did - others of course would disagree with us.
it's not that easy to dismiss writer that are in the accepted canon - but it should be done more often (with reason of course), don't you think?
i'm not sure either - i always felt she was slight (i read the Claudine books as a kid) but the French literary establishment has pegged her much higher - and was elected a member of L'Académie française
a bit like Genet, she had a life outside the conventional mainstream - as an exotic dancer in music hall - though her writing was not about this like it was with Genet
Yes. Especially the modernist canon. I'd love to talk to you about some time about modernism and modernistism!
I love the personal/theoretical approach. I'm inclined that way too -- as you observed before! It might have to do with being from a 3rd world country where the idea of intelligentsia is still relevant. Shostakovich... so much to say. He even confused Stalin! You reminded me that I have never read The Gadfly. Promptly ordered it.
Hello, nor sure if you meant to suggest that the music was Shostakovich. It does sound like one of his slow movements but its actually Chopin PC no. 2
Does anyone know what year this film is from?
yes, it was filmed in 1913
I'm very interested in the topic of Yao's book. There are many studies like that on different "developing" countries, like Iran. What I have in mind is less scholarly and theoretical though! I was watching Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet and thinking he is no less modern than Balanchine and Prokoviev no less than Stravinsky. And I can't think of anybody more "modern" then Shostakovich. And yet none of them are modernist. Don't you think?
I live next to her house aha, maybe 200 meters
so close!
@@JohnRaymondHall yes! Even my school is called "Collège Colette"
@@DracRomania to be so close to such literary history - i almost wonder if the ghost of Colette walks between the houses at night!
@@JohnRaymondHall ahaha we have a joke in Saint-Sauveur en puisaye (the city of Colette) we don't go close to her house at night, because we scared
@@DracRomania even in life she had a somewhat witch like appearance, which would be even more enhanced as a ghost, one that could rush out of her house and do terrible things to passers by! i read the Claudine books as a kid and loved them - so it was so exciting to see film of her
What do think is the significance of Colette? I'm never quite sure!
Sima Raft its juste à name
Colette l'écrivain bien sûr, mais surtout la femme libre sans préjugés ni concessions. .
je suis d'accord - elle était plus qu'un écrivain - et quelqu'un qui se connaissait et qui avait un point de vue
ends too soon
it does
l'intitulé de la musique s'il vous plait!
Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto, second movement
"Sans doute faut-il saluer en madame Colette la libératrice d'une psychologie féminine Cette libération du corps est surtout une libération sociale permettant à la femme de se débarrasser de la souffrance causée par l'homme et de sa soumission.
Certes, mais elle a aussi écrit "ma liberté me pèse, mon indépendance m''excède; ce que je cherche depuis des mois, c'était, sans m'en douter, un maître. Les femmes libres ne sont pas des femmes " (Claudine à Paris)
Cela l'aurait bien faite rire. Personne ne peut la mettre dans une case ceci ou cela. Relisez la intégralement en oubliant vos lunettes de formatage idéologique. Elle était bien plus libre que les féministes 2.0 qui, j'en suis certaine, l'aurait faite fuir. Elle a toujours aimé les hommes, l'amour et l'amitié et bien entendu, les animaux. Magnétique et ultra sensorielle, elle se sentait elle-même animale. Certainement pas militante !
@@isabellenicaud3725 EXACTEMENT ! Mais merci Isabelle !! Je suis tellement fatigué de toutes ces récupérations par des gens qui ne l'ont pas lue ou qui ne l'aiment pas comme nous l'aimons. Colette était, tout simplement.