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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... priest gave him the power to deceive not other people but himself : it was impossible for anyone who wasn't labouring under some kind of illusion to have such joie de vivre , to be always on the go , preaching the triumph of virtue in ...
... priest gave him the power to deceive not other people but himself : it was impossible for anyone who wasn't labouring under some kind of illusion to have such joie de vivre , to be always on the go , preaching the triumph of virtue in ...
Page 48
... priest to her and who had , that very morning , given me an ultimatum . My inner turmoil didn't amount to very much ; I felt the lines of a classic moral debate forming in my mind but it petered out before taking any definite shape ...
... priest to her and who had , that very morning , given me an ultimatum . My inner turmoil didn't amount to very much ; I felt the lines of a classic moral debate forming in my mind but it petered out before taking any definite shape ...
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... priest , or rather , that I was a priest ; today I am dying . The illness from which I'm dying , the torture I've endured and the mental anguish that I suffer when I think of my crimes 156.
... priest , or rather , that I was a priest ; today I am dying . The illness from which I'm dying , the torture I've endured and the mental anguish that I suffer when I think of my crimes 156.
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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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Dimensionen einer neuen Kultur des Politischen Christian Flatz,Sascha Felgitsch No preview available - 2006 |