Excerpt from "The Last of Chéri"

1926
Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse
Excerpt from The Last of Chéri
B-

This is one of the later chapters of the sequel to Chéri (1920), which I haven't read.  In isolation, it tells of the reunion of two lovers after five years, he having lived through the Great War and a loveless marriage, she having happily surrendered to an old age of fat and wrinkles.  He expects her to be unchanged, while she's much more realistic.  As a dual character study, it's pretty good, but not enough to make me want to read more.  (And from the Wikipedia description of the first novel and its 2009 movie version, I suspect that it's Claudine-level twisted sexuality.)