L'abbé CTold in a series of first-person accounts, L"'Abbe C" is a startling narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is nicknamed L'Abbe'. When the sexually wild Eponine intrudes upon their suffocating relationship, anguish, delirium, and death ensue. Other works by Georges Bataille published by Marion Boyars include "Blue of Noon" and "My Mother Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man. |
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... Robert was the image of Charles , yet his long cassock and woeful smile gave him an air of despondency . A despondency that I today am sure Charles often knew as well but , at the moment , Robert evinced quite plainly what Charles's ...
... Robert was the image of Charles , yet his long cassock and woeful smile gave him an air of despondency . A despondency that I today am sure Charles often knew as well but , at the moment , Robert evinced quite plainly what Charles's ...
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... Robert ' , and more often ' the abbe ' , ' the curé ' . He would smile to accentuate this irreverence which , while addressed to his brother , was nevertheless aimed at the solemnity symbolized by his cassock . Charles could be blithe ...
... Robert ' , and more often ' the abbe ' , ' the curé ' . He would smile to accentuate this irreverence which , while addressed to his brother , was nevertheless aimed at the solemnity symbolized by his cassock . Charles could be blithe ...
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... Robert's lack of it had the same effect . Each of them has made what I have described appear to be , not a given , defined event , but a mystery . As we shall see , Robert rather indifferently resorted to a kind of charade - whereas my ...
... Robert's lack of it had the same effect . Each of them has made what I have described appear to be , not a given , defined event , but a mystery . As we shall see , Robert rather indifferently resorted to a kind of charade - whereas my ...
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afraid anguish ANISETTE arms asked became began betraying breath brothel brother butcher cassock Charles Charles's chasuble Chianine church darkness dead death depressed despite doctor door drinking dying Eponine Eponine's escape everything eyes face faint feel felt gave GEORGES BATAILLE Germaine give glass hand happy head hear heard hirsute idea imagined impotence indifference irritated knew laugh laughter light longer look Madame Hanusse malaise manuscript matter of fact Mother Superior naked nausea never night nine o'clock nudity nuns painful perspiration pleasure pretended priest Raymonde rectory replied Robert Robert's notes Rosie Rosie's sacristan sacristy saying a word scream seemed sense shame silence sleep slowly smile solitude someone sort speak spoke stopped street suddenly sure talk Te Deum tell there's thing thought tion told took torture tower voice vulgar waiting wanted whispering whore William Blake window woman
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