Chéri and the End of Chéri

English language

Published April 19, 2022 by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The.

ISBN:
9781681376707

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4 stars (1 review)

4 editions

Millennial Angst from the Previous Millennium

4 stars

The best part of this book is the second half, which was a sequel to the first. The first half depicts a middle-aged Parisian woman's affair with a late-teenaged boy, and the second half focuses on that boy/man after coming back from serving in WWI to a world that no longer makes sense to him. The writing is evocative but not flowery, unsentimental and sometimes scathing.

Subjects

  • Romance literature