Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of "Gigi"
Colette started writing in her early twenties, and by the time she died, in 1954, at the age of eighty-one, she had published nearly eighty works: fiction, memoir, essays, drama, and collected journalism. Ironically, she is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of a single novella""Gigi""written during the Second World War, which is unique in her oeuvre precisely for the mellowness that makes it so pop…