Roberte Ce Soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Author
Original Works
Translator
Foreword / Afterword
Michael Perkins
Format
Collection / Anthology
Language
Year
2002
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
214
ISBN
9781564783097
Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary Frech fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of the Marquis de Sade before him, Klossowski's fiction explores the connections between the mind and the body through a lens of sexuality. Both of these novels feature Octave, an elderly cleric; his striking young wife Roberte; and their nephew, Antoine in a series of sexual situations. But Klossowski's books are about theology as well, and this merging of the sexual with the religious makes this book one of the most painstakingly baroque and intellectual novels of our time.— Google Books
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