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Laure

The Collected Writings

By Jeanine Herman, Laure

Paperback | 9780872862937

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Laure (1903-1938) was a revolutionary poet, masochist Catholic rich girl, and world traveler. Toward the end of her life she became the lover of French writer Georges Bataille. Her writings and her real life story were remarkable in their violence and intensity, and her relationships with BataillContinue

Laure (1903-1938) was a revolutionary poet, masochist Catholic rich girl, and world traveler. Toward the end of her life she became the lover of French writer Georges Bataille. Her writings and her real life story were remarkable in their violence and intensity, and her relationships with Bataille and Michel Leiris clearly influenced their works.

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.

Critics

  • Balzac, amatissimo fratello il genio ritratto con pudore

    Nel 1858, quando la sorella Laure scrive questo ritratto inquietante proprio nella sua troppo sottolineata affettuosità, Balzac è morto da otto anni. Il genio, entrato da protagonista nella storia, ha dunque cancellato l'uomo. Assistiamo perciò, pagi ... (read full critics)

    corrieredellasera published on Fri, 3 Dec 2010

  • Her resistance was low

    In 1984 the writer and film director Marguerite Duras, celebrated for the screenplay of Alain Resnais\' film Hiroshima Mon Amour, published her novel The Lover. It told the story of Duras\' disturbed childhood in colonial Indo-China and of how she ha ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 314 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0872862933
  • ISBN-13: 9780872862937
  • Publisher: City Lights Books
  • Pub date: Feb 01, 1995
  • Dimensions: 200 mm x 140 mm x 20 mm Just how big is that?
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