This complete collection of writings published for the first time in English includes Story of a Little Girl about the Catholic priest who sexually molested her sister The Sacred a collection of poems and fragments on mysticism and eroticism notes on her association with contrattaque and acephale and her involvement with the Spanish civil war and the early years of the Soviet Union a compendium of correspondence with her beloved sisterinlaw and tortured love letters to Bataille and an essay by Bataille about Laures death of tuberculosis at the age of thirtyfive.ampamp147People describe Laure as pure dissolute dark luminous. ampamp145I drank I bathed in her radiant purity Jean Bernier says. Leiris writes about her lyrically in fourbis and frampamp234le bruit as ampamp145the saint of the chasm.ampamp8217 Bataille calls her uncompromising pure and sovereign.