Roberte Ce Soir: And the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Klossowski, Pierre / Perkins, Michael / Wainhouse, Austryn / Klossowski, Pierre
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 situatio...