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The fault, in all fairness, is not his. His settings are as novelistically vivid as ever. The action is brisk: scenes from the War of 1812 as a curtain rais er; no-quarter combat with pirates in Caribbean and African waters; amphibious derring-do during the Mexican War; for a...
Joan of Arc was put to death on a pile of burning fagots. Gilles de Rais, the French nobleman who fought at her side at Orléans, met a somewhat different end. He turned out to be a fagot who dismembered and burned a pile of little boys-800...
Author Bataille, a screenwriter and novelist who was a finalist in last year's Prix Goncourt-France's foremost literary award-has perhaps revived Gilles de Rais's life a bit too fully. For mass horrors explicitly described, this book certainly has few rivals. Nowhere else, for...
Overwhelmed, as I am, by the Protestant ethic and its dour and anal tenets, I felt impaled on an Anglo-Catholic wheel of fire from the moment the titles appeared. The letters (designed by Saul Bass) were all formed from phallic components, decorated with blue vegetable coloring and topped with...
This odd narrative begins with a conversation between the Novelist-Hero Durtal and a learned physician. Des Hermies. The friends go to the tower cell of a saintly but simple character - the bellringer of Saint-Sulpice Church - where they dine and talk about theology. It all sounds very dull, and...