num_pages: 214
description: Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary French 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 situations. But Klossowski's books are about theology as well, and this merging of the sexual with the religious makes this book one of the most painstakingly baroque and intellectual novels of our time.
language: English
title: Roberte Ce Soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
titlecomplete: Roberte Ce Soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
genres: Literature, Philosophy, France, Erotica, Fiction
ratings_count: 84
series: Les Lois de l'hospitalité
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press