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Literature and Evil

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Description for Literature and Evil Paperback. A collection of essays that explores subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression. Translator(s): Hamilton, Alastair. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.
'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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141195575
SKU
9780141195575
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About Georges Bataille
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 ... Read more

Reviews for 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

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