The Image

The Image...Originally published in France in 1956 under the title L'Image in a small three thousand copy edition by Les Editions de Minuit, the leading avant-garde publisher in France during the past twenty years, The Image sold out its first printing in a matter of days. Before a second printing could be readied, however, the French censors banned the work. This American edition is the first publication of the novel anywhere since that time...The Image is a love story of an unconventional sort. The three protagonists are a man who bears the same name as that of the author, and two women: Claire domineering and coldly self-possessed, and Anne, who is a docile as she is young. The developing and shifting relationships among them demonstrate the essential, inescapable complicity between master and slave, torturer and victim, in any affair.