Wanderer

This edition includes two novels by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette about Rene Neri – “Wanderer” and “Obstacle”. This duology is an artistic reflection of Colette's own biography, whose personality became a bright symbol of the “beautiful era”, and whose life embodied the quest for freedom. Sincerity, subtle psychology, the beauty of the language, and a realism worthy of Balzac and Maupassant made Colette a classic of French literature.
Rene Neri dances in a music hall, captivating the gaze of the sophisticated Parisian audience. Just recently, she was a respectable married lady, the wife of a successful salon artist. Not wishing to endure humiliation and her husband's constant infidelities, she left to seek her own path and means of subsistence. A divorce in the eyes of her former bourgeois circle is already more than a scandalous act. But dancing on stage in a semi-nude form is an undeniable fall to the very bottom. Yet for Rene, her new life, despite all the difficulties and fatigue, is a free flight. Encountering new love, she fears only one thing – losing her independence. At the same time, she feels that true love is indeed true freedom.