Writer Kolette Biography

Sidoni Gabriel Kolette was born in Burgundy in the captain’s family, who left the army in disability and became a finin inspector. This retired officer had a rich library, the doors of which were always open to the girl as widely as the gate of the maternal garden. From her mother, the future writer inherited the love of nature, for animals, a benevolent and attentive attitude to all things.

In the year, Gabriel married Henri Gauthier-Willar, a regular in Parisian salons, in his free time from secular evenings, the time or more often instructed others to write novels that he published under the pseudonym Willy. Having found a literary talent in his young wife, he made her his "black man." Therefore, the first works of Kolett - the novel “Kpodin at School”, “Claudin in Paris”, “Claudin married”, “Claudin leaves” - turned out to be signed not by her name, but by the name of her spouse.

Willy, however, not only exploited it. Being a rather subtle literary critic, he gave his wife a lot of valuable advice and in regard to the selection of material, mainly memories, and with regard to thorough decoration of details. Books were successful thanks to unexpected plot strokes, the freshness of the language organized by Willy Advertising. Koliett managed to create a special literary type, which later the writer herself found a definition - “corrupted innocence”.

The heroine of the novel Koliett became a schoolgirl who naturally and naturally reasoning about the vicissitudes of love. Claudina’s relationship with adults is always ambiguous, but the girl pretends not to notice this. At the same time, the author observed all the necessary decency - books are not vulgar. The name Koliett becomes famous. Thanks to her husband’s connections and a scandalous book, she meets the literary elite of France.

As an independent author, Kolette made the book “Animal Dialogues”, the preface to which F. wrote the author’s observation, his surprisingly clear style. Here, Kolett openly relies on the subconscious, which in her work received complete rehabilitation. The writer was sure that the oblivion of this side of human psychology entails irreparable loss. After a divorce in the year, Kolett was left without funds and for several years performed on stage in pantomims, musical comedies and melodramas.

She spoke about this period of her life in the book “The Lear of the Music Hall” at the end of the year Kolette began to cooperate in the Maten newspaper. Journalistic activity gradually came to the fore in her life. Moreover, her newspaper chronicles were distinguished by such high skills that they deserved the enthusiastic reviews of Marseille Proust. At the same time, she published novels and gradually became one of the leading writers of France.

The most popular was her novel “Restless”, in which an autobiographical element is very strong. In the city of Kolett, he married a second time, which radically changes her life. Marriage with a famous aristocrat and diplomat A. She is actively engaged in journalism and literary criticism. At the end of World War I, there is a continuation of “animal dialogs” - “world among animals” was an attempt to show the absurdity of war and human cruelty against the backdrop of the harmonious evolution of the world of nature.

A genuine literary success comes to the writer in the city of Kolette receives official recognition. Between the heroes there are “psychological duels”, forcing Proust’s experience and talking about the undoubted psychological skill of the author. The study of the human soul will continue in the novel “Early Discharges” is a love story of two teenagers who threatens the world of adult predators.

Koliett continues here his favorite topic of childhood, which has already begun in Clodin at School. The book about Sheri got its continuation: in the city of the main book of the writer, the novel “Birth of the Day”, which synthesized his favorite subject and problems of Kolitt, was the novel. This is an example of an autopsychological novel of the XX century.

Koliett's work was distinguished by an amazing variety. Along with the novels, she wrote novels, plays, cinemas, libretto, poems in prose, books of travel, diaries ... In the year, she was elected to the Royal Academy of the French Language and Literature of Belgium, in the year - to the Goncorov Academy, and in the year she was awarded with a large officer order of honorary legion.

In the last years of his life, Kolette prefers lyrical prose. The diaries “from my window”, “evening star”, “blue lantern” are a confession of a writer, including stories about meetings and partings, about loss and hardships, about literary addictions and finds. In the same years, the languor of works of Kolett is being prepared for the publication - the work of Kolett is purely autobiographically.

It all grew out of the writer's life experience.There is no rich imagination or ideas in it, but there is a mysterious and very sensual reality, recreated with the help of a brilliant - perhaps the best in all French literature of the 20th century - the style is so embossed that the reader sees it almost in reality, hears it, feels its smell, feels like with the fingers of its bends and irregularities.