Translated by José Saramago, this volume comprises three stories that reveal Colette's sensitivity and narrative precision: Gigi, The Sick Boy, and The Photographer's Lady. Gigi presents the life of Gilberte, a teenager being groomed by her family to become a high-class courtesan, like her aunt and grandmother before her. However, Gigi has other plans for her future, defying family and social expectations. The Sick Boy portrays a ten-year-old boy immobilized by polio. The fever awakens his senses and plunges him into a world where reality and imagination intersect poetically. The last story, The Photographer's Lady, is a calm account of a dramatic event – a suicide attempt – transforming a moment of despair into a reflection on the trivialities of life. With her ironic and captivating writing, Colette explores the complexity of human emotions through the peculiarities of each of the protagonists in these three novellas.

«"Writing is translating. It always will be."»

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Porto Editora / Paperback / 112 pp. / 152 x 235 x 12 mm |