She wasn't 13 yet?


When Hélène is telling Pierre about her "encounter" with his father, the whole story is fantasy - the horse, the wild beasts, being one with nature. She tells him "I was 13 and full of rage." A minute later she says "I wasn't 13 yet", but almost immediately she says "we had been married for 5 years." It seems to me that all she's doing is backdating some rough sex she had with her husband to a fantasy that she had, or maybe acted out, when she was much younger. I haven't read the Bataille book, but the idea that she became a hedonist because she was brutally raped at 12, and on top of that she married her rapist and lived with him until his death, seems far-fetched to me.

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These are indeed things she says. Of more consequence is the type of relationship she had with her husband before and after marriage and why he was interested in her as a 13-year old girl. After she's dead, she's described as being 43 years old, which would fit to being about 14 when she had Pierre.

I haven't read the book either.

I'm a fountain of blood
In the shape of a girl

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