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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
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29. Jan. 2020 · Colette, 1873-1954. 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.
31. Jan. 2022 · By Francis Booth | On January 31, 2022 | Updated August 28, 2022 | Comments (0) 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 ...
"The Pure and the Impure" is a collection of vignettes and interviews that explore the spectrum of human sexuality and desire. The author draws from her own experiences and those of her friends and acquaintances, presenting a range of characters and situations that challenge conventional views of morality and propriety.
The flesh, always the flesh, the mysteries and betrayals and frustrations and surprises of the flesh – Colette, in The Pure and the Impure. Her work – mostly at novella length, short and...
27. Jan. 2023 · A revised and completed edition was boldly published during the Nazi occupation in 1941, with a new title Le Pur et L’Impur, in other words, The Pure and the Impure. It is a gallery of encounters and portraits, of reportages and conversations with people Colette knew intimately.
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.
