Duo (novel)

Duo
Author Colette
Translator Frederick A. Blossom
Country France
Language French
Publisher Marianne
Ferenczi & fils
Publication date
 12-31 October 1934
Published in English
 1935
Pages 227

Duo is a 1934 novel by the French writer Colette. The story focuses on a married couple on vacation in southern France, who deal with the fact that the wife has been unfaithful. Roberto Rossellini's 1954 film Journey to Italy is loosely based on the novel, but uncredited due to rights issues.[1]

Reception

Margaret Wallace of The New York Times wrote: "Duo is a small work and very fine. In comparison with Colette's previous novels it gives one- and this is odd, for nothing she has written has ever seemed shallow or immature- an impression of increased depth and maturity. It is altogether a cleaner and harder piece of writing than one has expected from Colette in the past. It is less mannered, ruthlessly stripped of anything decorative or ornamental, even of wit purely for wit's sake."[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brunette, Peter (1987). Roberto Rossellini. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 156.
  2. ↑ Wallace, Margaret (1935-11-17). "A Colette Crisis". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
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