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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... 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 volatile disposition kept concealed . ' My brother is rather ill ...
... 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 volatile disposition kept concealed . ' My brother is rather ill ...
Page 33
... smile , he gave an absurd reply : ' You're wrong there , ' he said , ' dead wrong ; that's all we think about . The truth is ... we deceive all our friends : outwardly we're lively , good - natured , even a bit too casual , but deep ...
... smile , he gave an absurd reply : ' You're wrong there , ' he said , ' dead wrong ; that's all we think about . The truth is ... we deceive all our friends : outwardly we're lively , good - natured , even a bit too casual , but deep ...
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... smile of the butcher who had the most lurid taste for death . That smile was such a perfect symbol of my frustration that the course of the thoughts that were racing through my mind turned toward the worst : some day I might be tortured ...
... smile of the butcher who had the most lurid taste for death . That smile was such a perfect symbol of my frustration that the course of the thoughts that were racing through my mind turned toward the worst : some day I might be tortured ...
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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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