Abstract
Although Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette based much of her fiction on her own personal memories, in her novel, Cheri, she portrays memory as a destructive force. The happiness which her characters, Lea Lonval and Cheri Peloux, discover in retrospect is all the more painful to them because their six-year-long liaison becomes overly embellished in their minds. In depicting the two protagonists of Cheri and its sequel, La Fin de Cheri, Colette transposes into them her own feelings. The writer, however, must be distinguished from the characters she creates in that, while Lea and Cheri are torn by the illusions which memory produces, Colette liberates herself from such a plight through writing. In Cheri, Colette denounces memory as a refuge from reality. Moreover, by means of her fiction, Colette rids herself of illusions she has had so as to see herself with more objectivity.
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