The appearance of The Castle of Cène in France in 1969, under the sonorous pseudonym of Urbain d'Orlhac, was a literary event immediately recognized as one of the finest works of French literary eroticism (with the History of the Eye of Georges Bataille or Pauline's Story of React); Its author was quickly identified: the poet and essayist Bernard Noël. The author makes the story an intense rite of sexual initiation that takes place on a mysterious and remote island. Chosen as a lover of the Moon, the hero embarks on a dantesque journey through successive levels of pain and ecstasy. The climax of the book is a beatific ritual of sexual purification in the Castle of Communion, which is described in poetic language crude and almost mystical. The intensity of the book demonstrates its method of composition: dictated on a tape recorder and completed in just three weeks, was written as a partial response to the atrocities committed by the French authorities in Algeria. This edition is crowned by an essay in the form of a postfix written by the own Noël, The outrage of the words, text that presents / displays its thoughts around failed attempts of the government to suppress the novel by ?? violating the public morality ???. In this short text the author illuminates the intimate connection between writing and censorship in general.