by Valentina Fortichiari · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788860884114
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«Lezione di nuoto. Colette e Bertrand, estate 1920» is the novel by Valentina Fortichiari published by U. Guanda in paperback (174 pages, in Italian).
Summer 1920: Colette, a free and transgressive writer, lives in Saint-Malo with a group of intellectuals. Amid meals, games and spicy conversations, she tries to discipline her daughter Bel-Gazou and guides Bertrand, her sixteen-year-old stepson, in swimming and in love. Her long solitary swims return her to the woman she once was.
Published in 2009 in Guanda's «Prosa contemporanea» series, it bears the subtitle «Colette e Bertrand, estate 1920».
Reading for those who enjoy novels about real women writers and intellectual circles of the early twentieth century.
