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.
- Author
- Bernard Noël, Paul Buck, Glenda George
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 109
- Publisher
- Atlas Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780947757298
- Genres
- fiction, france, erotica
- Release date
- 1993
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