Volume 20, Number 21 & 22 · January 24, 1974
The Wisdom of Colette
By Rosemary Tonks
Colette: The Difficulty of Loving
by Margaret Crosland
Bobbs-Merrill, 284 pp., $8.95
The Thousand and One Mornings
by Colette, translated by Margaret Crosland, by David Le Vay
Bobbs-Merrill, 155 pp., $6.95
We call her great, for her gift to us is not limited to the art of writing: it is the gift of a culture. I do not mean simply French culture and taste, but that she made certain discoveries with regard to the art of being which are indispensable to our lives, and which are regularly lost in the Western part of the world.
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