Decolette

RECAPTURED --Colette-- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though civilization has pretty well rubbed the romantic bloom off what the Bible and lawyers still call adultery, the theme was for a time almost a monopoly of the essentially unromantic French, still appeals strongly to their rationalizing writers. "Colette." whose books continue to be translated for a growing U. S. audience, has had her share of this national literary preoccupation. Colette-readers will recognize in the heroine of Recaptured the same Renee Neree of Renee, La Vagabonde (TIME, March 23). Renee, retired from the stage and (as she thinks and hopes) from the lists of love, at 36 finds herself leading a solitary hotel life on the Riviera. Two lovers, Jean and May, live at the same hotel; Renee against her will is drawn into the triangle. She runs away; Jean abandons May, follows her. Renee is older than than he is, thinks the worst of him, realizes that she is vulnerable, doubts if he is, but she lets him have his way. When they return to Paris she goes to live with him. Her recapture is so complete that from her point of view the inconclusive conclusion is satisfactory. Their affair has weathered storms, has not yet gone on the inevitable rocks.

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