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He's losing his looks, his friends, his wife, his lover, his mind.

It's not that Chéri IS thirty but that he has thirty years, that he's lived that long and has nothing tangible to show for it.

I have thirty years." I translated that literally because the impact is stronger in French. But Chéri can only cry out, "Tout est foutu, j'ai trente ans." "All is f-d. Even Léa has moved on, accepted the aging process, and lives like a thriving elderly woman because that's what she is. Chéri knows how to be rich and spoiled, and that's it. He can't run a hotel or work at a hospital. But me."Ĭhéri, like Dick Diver in Tender is the Night, has no place in this post-war world. Mais moi." "Everyone is changing and lives to change. But the War ends, and now what? Chéri reflects, "Tout ce monde change et vit pour changer. He knows nothing of real life, of struggle, of life and death. It steadily moves towards a peak from which the only possible escape is a jump.Ĭhéri was raised as an illegitimate child, first by his decadent mother, and then by his much older lover. But as Chéri declines, the book inclines (can I say that about a novel?). This book has less dialogue and more inner monologue mixed with narrative, which is why I found it more boring at first. What I loved most about Chéri was the dialogue, which was so achingly realistic. This didn't have the same impact on me as Chéri at first, but as the book progressed and moved towards its climax, I was enthralled.