Vagabond

A new translation into English of The Vagabond by Colette tells the story of thirty-three-year-old Renée Néré as she embarks on a stage career. The novel offers a look behind the scenes from a woman's perspective, a view enabled by Colette's own simultaneous experience as writer and dancer.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Translator's Note


• Select Bibliography


• A Chronology of Colette


• THE VAGABOND


• Explanatory Notes

About the author

Frances Egan is a translator and lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. She has published widely on representations of gender, culture and feminism in the French and Francophone context.

Helen Southworth is a professor in the English Department at the University of Oregon. She is the co-founder of the digital initiative the Modernist Archives Publishing Project or MAPP. Her areas of expertise include modernism, comparative literature, Virginia Woolf, life-writing and archives. She is the author of The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette (2004) and Fresca: A Life in the Making (2017).

Product details

• Authors: Colette
• Assisted by: Southworth Helen (Editor), Frances Egan (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2025
• EAN: 9780198881582
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888158-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form