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 frele 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 fervent revolutionary, Bataille's
great love. But if she is radiant and dirty, she is also insolent.
That, it seems, is what saves her." --Jeanine Herman "Colette
Peignot, a.k.a. Laure, is one of the more fascinating and intense
women writers of the past century. Georges Bataille and Michel
Leiris described her as "one of the most vehement existences [that]
ever lived, one of the most conflicted." They summarized her
volatile personality as "[e]ager for affection and for disaster,
oscillating between extreme audacity and the most dreadful anguish,
as inconceivable on a scale of real beings as a mythical being, she
tore herself on the thorns with which she surrounded herself until
becoming nothing but a wound, never allowing herself to be confined
by anything or anyone." In other words, Laure was the epitome of
what Bataille would dub the "sovereign" individual." --Jason
DeBoer, Absinthe Literary Review "By the time one emerges from this
compilation of autobiographical and biographical sketches by and
about her, of poems, scattered notes and fevered letters, one can't
help feeling that her true masterwork was her ability to make
others react to and remember her." -- Mark Polizzotti, London
Review of Books 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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
