L'abbe C

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by Georges Bataille,

Translated by Philip A. Facey

Marion Boyars Publishers

Due/Published April 2001, 158 pages, paper

ISBN 071452848x

Told in a series of first-person accounts, L'Abbe C is a startling narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers, Charles and Robert. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is nicknamed 'L'Abbe'. When the sexually wild Eponine intrudes on their suffocating relationship, madness and death ensue.