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The Castle of Communion

Fiction. The novel recounts an intense initiatory sexual quest which occurs on a mysterious remote island. Chosen as the moon's lover the hero undertakes a Dantaesque journey through successive layers of pain and ecstasy. The book's climax is a beatific rite of sexual purification in the Castle of Communion, which is described in a poetic language at once incantatory, crude and almost mystical. The intensity of the book matches its mode of composition: dictated into a tape recorder and finished in only three weeks. The author has described it as a partial response to the atrocities committed by the French authorities in Algeria.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 109
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780947757298
  • Genres
  • fiction, france, erotica
  • Release date
  • 1993