Word: raises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...