Colette: The Difficulty of Loving

Who was Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette? A child whose intensely personal relationship with her mother has been called literary rather than natural; a whoma whose restless energy led her to seek sexual fulfillment through intimate relationships with both menb and women; a writer whose remarkable fiction merrors almost exactly her own scandal-frought life? Perhaps she is all of these, perhaps not; but there is no doubt that the life of this exquisite artist has always been surrounded by mystery and speculation.