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This complete collection of writings published for the first time in English includes Story of a Little Girl, about the Catholic priest who sexually molested her sister; The Sacred, a collection of poems and fragments on mysticism and eroticism; notes on her association with contr-attaque and acephale, and her involvement with the Spanish civil war and the early years of the Soviet Union; a compendium of correspondence with her beloved sister-in-law and tortured love letters to Bataille; and an essay by Bataille about Laure''s death of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-five.

“People describe Laure as pure, dissolute, dark, luminous. ‘I drank, I bathed in her radiant purity’ Jean Bernier says. Leiris writes about her lyrically in fourbis and frèle bruit as ‘the saint of the chasm.’ Bataille calls her uncompromising, pure, and sovereign. It is tempting to romanticize Laure – in the most sublime and violent sense – as consumptive poet, a

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    A Paperback by Laure Peignot, Jeanine Herman

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      Publisher City Lights Books
      Published 2/14/1991 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780872862937
      978-0872862937
      ISBN-10 0872862933
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      Biography Anthologies

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This complete collection of writings published for the first time in English includes Story of a Little Girl, about the Catholic priest who sexually molested her sister; The Sacred, a collection of poems and fragments on mysticism and eroticism; notes on her association with contr-attaque and acephale, and her involvement with the Spanish civil war and the early years of the Soviet Union; a compendium of correspondence with her beloved sister-in-law and tortured love letters to Bataille; and an essay by Bataille about Laure''s death of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-five.

      “People describe Laure as pure, dissolute, dark, luminous. ‘I drank, I bathed in her radiant purity’ Jean Bernier says. Leiris writes about her lyrically in fourbis and frèle bruit as ‘the saint of the chasm.’ Bataille calls her uncompromising, pure, and sovereign. It is tempting to romanticize Laure – in the most sublime and violent sense – as consumptive poet, a

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