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, published when Mansour was twenty-five, was met by mixed reviews. Writing in the left-wing newspaper , which began life as a Resistance publication at one point edited by Albert Camus, the poet and critic Alain Bosquet wrote that Mansour “annexes necrophilia to poetry with extreme ease.” Compared to , Anne Desclos’s sadomasochistic novel was “mere rosewater and Henry Miller a choirboy.” “Don’t give her access to the morgue,” Bosquet warned, “she’ll wake the corpses.”
