Literature and evil - Georges Bataille

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Title
Literature and evil
Author
Georges Bataille
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20120607

'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 Bront's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument.

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Georges Bataille, French essayist and novelist, was born in 1897. He converted to Catholicism, then to Marxism, and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism. As curator of the municipal library in Orleans, he led a relatively simple life, although he became involved, usually on the fringes, with the surrealist movement. He founded the literary review Critique in 1946, which he edited until his death in 1962, and was also a founder of the review Documents, which published many of the leading surrealist writers. His writing is a mixture of poetry and philosophy, fantasy and history, and his first novel, Story of the Eye, was written under the pseudonym of Lord Auch. Bataille's other works include the novels Blue of Noon, L'Abb C and My Mother, and the volumes of essays Eroticism and Literature and Evil.

Bataille is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century
Michel Foucault

Bataille intellectualizes the erotic, as he eroticizes the intellect ... reading him can be a disturbing kind of game
The New York Times

Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Evil in literature.|Literature, Modern - History and criticism.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
179

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