From Les heures longues Written by Colette Translated by Kate Palisay Saint-Malo, August 1914 War? Before the end of last month, this was only a word, enormous, spelled out by the headlines of newspapers in the daze of the summer. War? Maybe, yes, a long way away, on the other side of the earth,…Continue Reading The News
Written by Colette Translated by Kara Dobrolsky March 1915 “The bombing began immediately and without prior warning. One quarter, left unscathed, was pillaged and burned with oil. An old woman was looking after her paralytic husband there; they chased her with the butts of their rifles and set the bed of the ill man on…Continue Reading The Same Ones