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The Pure and the Impure (French: Le Pur et l'impur) is a 1932 novel by the French writer Colette. It consists of a series of conversations about sex, gender and attraction. Colette considered it her best book, and described it as "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography".
- Colette
- 1932
29 gen 2020 · Publication date. 1967. Topics. Colette, 1873-1954 -- Translations into English, Women -- France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Lesbians -- Fiction, Women -- Sexuality -- Fiction, France -- Fiction. Publisher. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Collection.
31 gen 2022 · The Pure and the Impure by Colette, a strange work first published in 1932, feels less like a novel and more like a series of loosely stitched together character sketches. Indeed it is just that, of the gay and lesbian demimondaine societies in the Paris of Colette’s time.
By MARGARET WALLACE. THE PURE AND THE IMPURE. Translated by Edith Daily. By Colette. olette always approaches the subject of love with the skill and authority of a specialist in such matters. In...
30 lug 2009 · The Pure and the Impure is short, written in first person. In each of the nine chapters Colette introduces us to another “ghost.” A woman gives selfless pleasure to a younger man, echoing the low-throat calls of a contrived orgasm through silent yet populated halls.
The following translation by Herma Briffault is in Colette, The Pure and the Impure (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966, 1967), p. 171: "whose light chestnut hair was exactly the shade of mine." Subsequent.
Lucid and lyrical, The Pure and the Impure stands out as one of modern literature's subtlest reckonings not only with the varieties of sexual experience, but with...
