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The Artist's Novel
La vocation suspendue, 1950
Book
, 19 x 12.4 cm, 150 p., language : French, publisher : Éditions Gallimard, Paris, Édition 1990 (Ouvrage reproduit par procédé photomécanique), ISBN : 2-07-072169-8
Ink, paper
Literary synopsis
La vocation suspendue is Pierre Klossowski’s first novel. It is a semiautobiographical book in which the protagonist Jérome abandons his Catholic vocation and returns to secular life as a writer. La vocation suspendue is a novel where a priest can also be an atheist psychoanalyst, a nun can pose as a corpse for an avant-garde artist and where, at its climax, the atheist avant-garde artist is revealed to be a powerful and influential priest.
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