The Pure and the Impure (New York Review Books Classics)
Editorial Reviews
Judith Thurman, National-Book-Award-winning author of Passions of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
... comes closer than any of Colette's books, memoir or fiction, to revealing 'the mysterious nature of [her] being.
Book Description
Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series of unforgettable encounters with men and, especially, women whose lives have been improbably and yet permanently transfigured by the strange power of desire. 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 the always unlikely nature of love.
The Pure and the Impure (New York Review Books Classics)
The Pure and the Impure (New York Review Books Classics),Colette,Judith Thurman,Herma Briffault,NYRB Classics,094032248X,Classics,Erotica - General,Fiction,Fiction - Adult,Literature: Classics,Fiction / General
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