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Description:When Le Château de Céne (here translated as The Castle of Communion) first appeared in France in 1969, under the sonorous pseudonym of Urbain d'Orlhac, it created a sensation. Immediately recognised as being among the finest works of French literary eroticism (along with, say, Bataille's Story of the Eye, or Reage's Story of O), its author was soon identified: the poet and essayist Bernard Noël, born in 1930. The novel recounts an intense initiatory sexual quest which occurs on a mysterious remote island. Chosen as the moon's lover the hero undertakes a Dantesque voyage through sucessive levels of pain and ecstasy. The book's climax is a beatific rite of sexual purification in the Castle of Communion, which is described in a poetic language at once incantatory, crude and almost mystical. The intensity of the book matches its method of composition: dictated into a tape recorder and finished in only three weeks. The author has described it as a partial response to the atrocities committed by the French authorities in Algeria. This authorized translation has as an afterward Noël's essay The Outrage Against Words, his thoughts on the government's unsuccessful attempts in the courts to supress the novel for "outraging public morals." He illuminates the intimate connection between writing and censorship in general.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Castle of Communion. To get started finding The Castle of Communion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 109

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Atlas Press

Release: 1993

ISBN: 0947757295

Description: When Le Château de Céne (here translated as The Castle of Communion) first appeared in France in 1969, under the sonorous pseudonym of Urbain d'Orlhac, it created a sensation. Immediately recognised as being among the finest works of French literary eroticism (along with, say, Bataille's Story of the Eye, or Reage's Story of O), its author was soon identified: the poet and essayist Bernard Noël, born in 1930. The novel recounts an intense initiatory sexual quest which occurs on a mysterious remote island. Chosen as the moon's lover the hero undertakes a Dantesque voyage through sucessive levels of pain and ecstasy. The book's climax is a beatific rite of sexual purification in the Castle of Communion, which is described in a poetic language at once incantatory, crude and almost mystical. The intensity of the book matches its method of composition: dictated into a tape recorder and finished in only three weeks. The author has described it as a partial response to the atrocities committed by the French authorities in Algeria. This authorized translation has as an afterward Noël's essay The Outrage Against Words, his thoughts on the government's unsuccessful attempts in the courts to supress the novel for "outraging public morals." He illuminates the intimate connection between writing and censorship in general.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Castle of Communion. To get started finding The Castle of Communion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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