SCHRIFTEN. 1980. EDITED / TRANSLATED BY BERND MATTHE.

Munchen: Verlag Matthes & Seitz, 1980

20  x 12.5cm. 252pp. B/w photo documentation. Photographic wrappers (a portrait of the author). First German language edition of these collected prose and poetic texts by the author. Notes by Georges Bataille and Marcel More.

Laure was a veritable polemic lightening rod within the context of the Bataille / Michel Leiris and “College de Sociologie” milieu until her tragic death (of tuberculosis) at the age of 35 in 1938. S

ubsequently her first book “Le Sacre” was issued under the stewardship of Bataille and Leiris. For many years Peignot was Bataille’s lover. A fine example.