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The Castle of Communion

Bernard Noël
3.71/5 (32 ratings)
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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.
Format:
Pages:
109 pages
Publication:
1993
Publisher:
Atlas Press
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ISBN10:
0947757295
ISBN13:
9780947757298
kindle Asin:
0947757295

The Castle of Communion

Bernard Noël
3.71/5 (32 ratings)
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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.
Format:
Pages:
109 pages
Publication:
1993
Publisher:
Atlas Press
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
0947757295
ISBN13:
9780947757298
kindle Asin:
0947757295

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