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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... say her rosary . Robert had taken an analgesic which was perhaps beginning to work . I managed to find myself a seat ... saying a word to me , didn't even see me : the pain had him so firmly in its grip and he was enduring it with such ...
... say her rosary . Robert had taken an analgesic which was perhaps beginning to work . I managed to find myself a seat ... saying a word to me , didn't even see me : the pain had him so firmly in its grip and he was enduring it with such ...
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... saying a word ; he closed the door and came back to sit at my table . I stared at him in silence . He was dressed in ... speaking to me . If it is true that his remarks , in a certain sense , eluded me , it was due to the nature of what ...
... saying a word ; he closed the door and came back to sit at my table . I stared at him in silence . He was dressed in ... speaking to me . If it is true that his remarks , in a certain sense , eluded me , it was due to the nature of what ...
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... saying a word , I just showed my surprise at the idea that he might have some reason to condemn him . He looked as if a weight had been taken off his shoulders . He spoke softly , as if he were sure I knew what he was going to say ...
... saying a word , I just showed my surprise at the idea that he might have some reason to condemn him . He looked as if a weight had been taken off his shoulders . He spoke softly , as if he were sure I knew what he was going to say ...
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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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