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Blue of Noon by BATAILLE GEORGES
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fi ...Show more
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille; Mary Dalwood (Translator)
Category: Culture
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss ...Show more
Essays - Volume 1: 1944 - 1948 by Chris Turner (Translator); Georges Bataille; Alberto Toscano (Editor); Benjamin Noys (Editor)
Category: Culture | Series: The\French List Ser.
This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age ...Show more
Literature and Evil by George Bataille, Georges Bataille
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Literature is not innocent', stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Bro ...Show more
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by Georges Bataille
Category: Fiction
In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. "My Mother" is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experien ...Show more
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Category: Fiction
In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche ...Show more
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Georges Bataille's first novel is widely regarded as the erotic masterpiece of the 20th century. It appears here together with two essays: Susan Sontag's study of the literature of sex, "The Pornographic Imagination", and Roland Barthes's critical essay on the text, "The Metaphor of the Eye'.
The Accursed Share, Volume I: Volume 1: Consumption by Georges Bataille
Category: Culture
Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. Unlike conventional economic models based on noti ...Show more
The Accursed Share, Volumes II & III by Georges Bataille
Category: Culture
The three volumes of "The Accursed Share" address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. The first volume, the only one published before Bataille's death, treated this paradox in ...Show more
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture by Georges Bataille
Category: Culture
This title provides a radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential. "The Cradle of Humanity" collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. Thes ...Show more
The Sacred Conspiracy - The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille + André Masson (Illustrator)
Category: Culture
Georges Bataille's secret society, long the stuff of legend, is now revealed in its texts, meditations, rules and prohibitions. This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which the influential philosopher, cultural theorist and occasional pornograph ...Show more
The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille
Category: Fiction
Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims, Bataille revea ...Show more