Livres-souvenirs of Colette

Throughout her career, Colette experimented with genre for the purposes of telling stories of her life. The books that resulted, known collectively as her ''livres-souvenirs'', are far from being autobiographies in the customary sense. By addressing the need to reconsider the generic issues surrounding autobiographical story-telling, Anne Freadman''s study brings the richness of ''the genre questi...