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Blue of Noon by BATAILLE GEORGES
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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
Literature and Evil by George Bataille, Georges Bataille
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | 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
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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
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Category: 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'.
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