The pure and the impure
By: Colette ; translated by Herma Briffault ; introduction by Judith Thurman.
Contributors: Briffault, Herma.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Description: "This guided tour of the erotic nether-world with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den, and continues as a series of unforgettable encounters with men and, especially, women whose lives have been improbably and yet permanently transfigured by the 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 unlikely nature of love."--BOOK JACKET.