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Depicts the relationship between Gilles de Rais, later know as Bluebeard, and Joan of Arc, and suggests the effect of her condemnation and martyrdom on him
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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This novella by Prix Goncourt-winner Tournier (Friday, The Ogre) recreates medieval history by exploring the bizarre love of Gilles de Rais for Jeanne d'Arc, satanist and saint respectively. The homosexual Gilles, a noble and a marshal of France, finds in the boylike Jeanne an "intoxicating fusion of sanctity and war." He escorts and protects her in battle against the English, and later tries vainly to save her from the stake. After her death, Gilles is diabolically transformed. He seeks to raise Jeanne's spirit by putting on the mystery play Siege of Orleans. Gilles's subsequent crimes earn him the name of Bluebeard: young boys are lured to his castle, feasted and then torturedwith erotic refinementsto death. Gilles rationalizes his grisly deeds by invoking the martyred Holy Innocents. Obsessed with Jeanne's memory, he burns the children's bodies in rites of necromancy, hoping to turn them to spiritual gold. Finally, Gilles is condemned to burn, like his adored saint. Tournier's fervent and striking meditation on these legendary figures suggests that heaven and hell are the obverse sides of a coin.
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- PublisherGrove Weidenfield
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 080210021X
- ISBN 13 9780802100214
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages125
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