The Sextine Chapel
By: Hervé Le Tellier ; translated by Ian Monk
Contributors: Monk, Ian
Edition: 1st English translation.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2011-07-26
Place of publication: Champaign, Illinois, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: La Chapelle Sextine
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9781564785756
Work titles: Chapelle sextine
Description: The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Hervé le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user’s manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the criss-crossing of their lives and partners makes up a pattern as intricate as the fresco on the ceiling of a chapel . . .


Harkening back to another playful book on an intimate subject—Harry Mathews’s Singular Pleasures—Hervé le Tellier’s The Sextine Chapel celebrates the wonderful, often random, often excruciating possibilities of sexual intimacy, with something here for just about everyone—and their wife, husband, lover, or passing fancy.