The Pure and the Impure - Couverture rigide

Colette

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1324075236 ISBN 13 : 9781324075233

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2026

Synopsis

Journey through the sexual underworld of Belle Époque Paris in the first new English translation of Colette’s masterpiece in nearly sixty years

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Allusive and sometimes obscure, yet precise—The Pure and the Impure has elicited equal parts consternation and praise since its publication nearly 100 years ago. Through strikingly vivid and evocative portraits, many of them of her friends and lovers, Colette explores varieties of sexual expression, gender identity, love and sensual pleasure. Decades ahead of its time in contemplating queerness and women’s sexuality, The Pure and the Impure provides a fascinating window into the various demimondes of the Parisian Belle Époque. At the same time, the book offers a unique portrait of a complex and often contradictory character–Colette herself. The “brilliantly ingenious” (Lydia Davis) translator Rachel Careau presents an elegant and highly readable rendition that reproduces Colette’s extraordinary musicality, making her “perfect, lapidary and truth-bearing sentences” (Terry Castle) sing for English readers.

Rachel Careau’s translation of Colette’s Chéri and The End of Chéri was praised as:

• “This heartbreaking, astute pair of novels…are among the best of [Colette’s] vast, impressive canon.” – The New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
• ""Both novels are exquisite in structure, sparse and lacy, every detail in a web of other details, merciless, precise."" – Jenny Turner, London Review of Books

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Colette (1873-1954) wrote numerous works, including Gigi, The Vagabond, and My Mother's House. She was the first woman elected president of the Académie Goncourt.

Rachel Careau was named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow in 2019. Her translations of Roger Lewinter's Story of Love in Solitude and The Attraction of Things were published by New Directions in 2016. Her writing and translations have appeared in Literary Hub, BOMB, Harper's Magazine, Plume, and Two Lines. She lives in Hudson, New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1324075236
• ISBN 13: 9781324075233
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible