Laure by Laure Colette Peignot Paperback Book 9780872862937

This complete collection of writings published for the first time in English includes quotStory of a Little Girlquot about the Catholic priest who sexually molested her sister quotThe Sacredquot a collection of poems and fragments on mysticism and eroticism notes on her association with contrattaque 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 sisterinlaw and tortured love letters to Bataille and an essay by Bataille about Laures death of tuberculosis at the age of thirtyfiveamp147People describe Laure as pure dissolute dark luminous amp145I drank I bathed in her radiant purity Jean Bernier says Leiris writes about her lyrically in fourbis and framp234le bruit as amp145the saint of the chasmamp8217 Bataille calls her uncompromising pure and sovereign It is tempting to romanticize Laure amp150 in the most sublime and violent sense amp150 as consumptive poet a fervent revolutionary Batailleamp8217s great love But if she is radiant and dirty she is also insolent That it seems is what saves herquot amp151Jeanine HermanquotColette Peignot aka Laure is one of the more fascinating...