Literature and Evil

Georges Bataille author Alastair Hamilton translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:7th Jun '12

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Literature and Evil cover

A collection of essays that explores subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression.'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 Brontë'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.

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 *

ISBN: 9780141195575

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 11mm

Weight: 150g

192 pages