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- Title: Le blé en herbe
- Author: Colette
- ISBN: 9782290334737
- Page: 433
- Format: Poche
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The first thirty or so pages were dazzling Two adolescents on holiday on the Brittany coast are discovering sexual feelings for each other The descriptions of this awakening in the girl, Vinca, and how she responds, sometimes like a shy wild animal, sometimes like the prototype of a sophisticated woman, were particularly compelling The coastal setting too was beautifully evoked and poignantly conveyed the delicate balance between childhood simplicity and rousing sensual knowledge Then the boy, P [...]
I have restricted access to books up here in the snowy Highlands, hence my reading this short novel plucked at random about melodramatic teenagers in love Colette writes eloquently about nature in relation to human biology but this story has been told a thousand times before and with fewer obnoxious little brats involved Did you know, incidentally, that since I ve been up here I ve had the worst cinematic experience of my life I was made to watch the absolutely abysmally horrible film Patch Adam [...]
Vian tiene raz n es una gran novelita sobre el amor burgu s y la calentura adolescente Pero fundamentalmente es una novela de venganza protofeminista Si estamos acostumbrados todav a hoy a que una obra rom ntica cuente las peripecias de la perdida de la virginidad de una jovencita que sufre, aqu el que sufre es el joven protagonista La novela se parte en dos, en la noche en que Philippe se hace hombre con una mujer mayor, Camille A partir de ah empieza su camino tortuoso, m s o menos existencial [...]
Not my cup of tea, I m afraid.
I like Colette If you like insightful description of thoughts and feelings, which sometimes takes the form of description of sceneries, you might like her work, too This is, in a sense, an adaptation of Daphnis and Chloe Unlike Daphnis and Chloe, Philippe and Vinca are not orphans, but their parents are strangely absent They are young and in love they didn t meet one day, they ve always known each other They are in beautiful, at the same time rough, nature Although it s not marketed as such, thi [...]
This is the first non Claudine book of Collette s that I ve read I have to say I did not care for it at all I don t really like her male characters and this was all from the male s point of view It was a teen romance about a 16 year old, wanting to marry a 15 year old and having an affair with an older woman that didn t do anything for him It just felt so pointless The only thing it did was make me want to eat seafood Not really one I can recommend.
I spent seven years searching for a copy of this book in multiple cities It was a poignant experience reading this book.
I am still able to vividly remember my first brushes with love I remember the awkwardness, the pain, the confusion and the uncontrollable desires as I am sure most individuals can First love and the first flurried awakenings of passion is something that all feel no matter age, gender or generation To float through the pages of Colette s Ripening Seed is to revisit this time in life, except with a great deal beauty and poetry The reader is able to easily relate to her budding young lovers and se [...]
A short novel by Colette focussing on one summer in the lives of Philippe and Vinca, two teenagers who have been friends since childhood This year their relationship is changing as they reach adolescence and become aware of their romantic feelings for each other.That all sounds quite pleasant, and when the book describes the Brittany coast where the two families are holidaying and follows the fluctuating feelings of the pair, it is The prose is is rich and it is easy to picture scenes with all s [...]
I chose this book for The Fall Reading Challenge, 15 point task 5 Time To Study Abroad Foreign Language Read 2 Books That Were Originally Published In The Same Foreign Language One You Don t Speak Fluently.The story is about two Parisian teens spending the summer at the beach, Phillipe and Vinca One day Phillipe meets a lost woman who immediately is attracted to him, and eventually pursues an affair This event disrupts the relationship between Phillipe and Vinca as well as both their ideas for t [...]
ah Colette Just a few too many descriptions of Vinca s blue as a thistle eyes in English we would say cornflower blue and her muscled, brown as baked earth legs A slight tale about a 16 1 2 yr old boy named Phil and a 15 1 2 year old girl named Vinca short for Pervenche whose families have summered together on the Brittany coast since the pair were infants Now, adolescents, they are troubled by new feelings for each other and new relationships with their own and each other s bodies Complicated b [...]
I thought this was a pretty irritating book, although the writing is not bad, and some of the imagery definitely good Ok, so you definitely have to be in the mood for Colette to at all appreciate her, but still This book focuses on two adolescent drama queens in the throes of turning from childhood inseparables to I love you Say something Ah, you will never care Did you imagine you could deceive me So that s difficult to like It s not as completely trashy as her first books Claudine, etc but ret [...]
Le principal attrait de ce roman d apprentissage est son ton doux amer, la fa on limpide dont il transcrit la perte de l innocence psychique autant que physique , qui accompagne le passage de l enfance l ge presque adulte.Cela tant, les h ros, malgr leur jeunesse, ne sont pas attachants pour 2 sous, et Colette semble s tre davantage int ress e aux descriptions du bord de mer qu leurs atermoiements adolescents On suit surtout l volution du jeune gar on, la gamine nous apparaissant essentiellement [...]
I m sure this book was supposed to be something akin to Catcher in the Rye teenage angst It was just hard to take it seriously when it was some prissy 16 year old boy, ranting about how his far he is in life and how it s all going to waste, a childhood friend he deems as his personal property and bipolarly abuses and sweet talks, some random middle aged lady he has an affair with, and about how good and lean his young tanned body and black curls look It was blah all the way through
Enjoyed the actual writing Enjoyed most of it, in fact, in the way that I enjoy lovely writing about silly teenage angst What bumped it down significantly in my view is the use of the trope that Girls Have Instinctive Wisdom.Nope No, girls are dumb too.But the book was a nice and short read and made me want to go vacation on the Brittany coast.
What a phenomenal book about the pangs and angst of adolescents Collete does a fantastic job of showcasing a teenage boy s mercurial sexual changes and the heartbreak of a young girl being transformed differently The Ripening Seed is a quick and descriptive read and I look forward to reading other works by Collete in the future.
How Colette captures the innocence and beauty of youth in this quintessential coming of age novel amazes me, especially considering her own history The novel never becomes tasteless, and verges on wistful.
I felt as though I were walking unseen with two beautiful young animals
Densely poetic, its peculiar structure no doubt down to its original serialisation, like a series of polaroids which primarily focus on the male character but occasionally, unexpectedly, give us a close up of one of the two key female characters Brims with guarded sensuality that only really takes off in the final chapter where the central conflict is somewhat resolved, but leaves us with an unromantic, and therefore probably truer, view of love than any number of Mills and Boon stories.
Il francese piuttosto complicato e mi ha rallentato un po nella lettura di questo breve racconto, in cui Colette tratta un tema a lei caro, una storia d a sofferta, sanguigna e a tratti urlata, in una brumosa estate bretone Alcuni spunti interessanti, ma dopo Cheri forse non posso che rimanere delusa.
Tragedy can be inevitable What it shouldn t be is boring.Colette s prose is liquid, and her sympathetic apprehension of adolescent narcissism made this a book worth finishing But a stale semi plot took itself and its depthless characters far too seriously, and moralized too thoroughly and inconsistently, for me to rate the novel well.
Kauniisti kirjoitettu tarina nuoruudesta, rakkaudesta, kasvmisesta, aikuistumisesta.
A book you read in schoolI studied Collette s Le Bl en Herbe for French A level but we mainly read it in English I had to read a book from school days as part of a reading challenge so I went with my old school copy complete with notes in the margins I am astounded at how much of the plot went completely over my young head I was very naive
Colette femme lib r e et aimant la libert a crit de nombreuses uvres au d but du XX me si cle Nombreuses ont d fray la chronique et le Bl en herbe en fait parti Imaginez vous au d but du si cle dernier, pendant l entre deux guerres, o les gar ons sont duqu s dans le seul but de faire une bonne carri re du moment qu ils font parti de la haute et de trouver une femme qui elle aura t duqu e pour bien coudre, bien tenir une maison, tre d vou e son mari, avoir un minimum d esprit et pouser ce qu elle [...]
Voil des ann es que je voulais lire Colette.Agn s F qui tient l crivaine du Palais Royal comme l un e des plus grand e s auteur e s du XX me si cle me moquait de ne jamais avoir lu l auteur des Claudine.Aussi j ai profit des vacances pour lire Le bl en herbe retrouv dans un coin poussi reux du grenier.On tient ce court roman de 1923 comme une des oeuvres les plus audacieuses de son temps Raconter la d couverte de l amour physique par de jeunes adolescents de 15 ou 16 ans tait aussi sulfureux que [...]
How disappointing I expected a passionate and maybe bittersweet tale of two young lovers a sensual story of first love Instead, this was a slow story of two obedient, bourgeois youths whose conceptions of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman are shaped by their repressive culture Our protagonist, Philippe, for example has a pretty clear cut case of the Madonna whore complex, and his first childhood love, Vinca is not at all believable as a 15 year old girl so docile in her a [...]
When she was forty seven Colette went rather off her rocker, entering a liaison with her stepson, sixteen year old Bertrand de Jouvenel At one point in the affair the famous writer had as a rival a girl of Bertrand s own age The story of this threesome provides the inspiration for The Ripening Seed In her novella, however, Colette tells the story almost entirely from the viewpoint of the teenagers, Phil and Vinca, friends whose families have been coming to the same seaside resort since they were [...]
I m supposed to get and read this for a French group I m in Will I actually be able to read it Who knows We switched to this one instead of L ing nue libertine, also by Colette, because it took too long to come in I m a little disappointed because that one sounded scandalous If I m going to sit around and read a french book aloud in a circle it might as well be scandalous It s already so awkward.I also was excited to read Comme un roman from Joulia but I am trying to force myself to actually ta [...]
From whatever shores we hail, Colette evokes adolescent summers on the Brittany coast as though they were our own memories of sexual awakening.
J aimais bien ce roman Surtout, j aimais les descriptions Le livre est vraiment comme un long po me de prose Colette a d crit la plage avec de la chaleur et de la beaut C est amusant penser que le livre tait crit aux ann es vingti mes, et les sc nes sexuelles taient tr s choquantes quand le roman tait publi Aujourd hui ils ne sont pas explicites du tout J tais souvent frustr e avec les personnages, pourtant J ai trouv le personnage principal arrogant et pas aimable, et j ai de la difficult lui t [...]