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Georges Bataille

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born
December 13, 1901 in Billon, Puy-de-Dôme, France

died
July 08, 1962

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Philosophy


About this author

French essayist, philosophical theorist and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental act of communion. Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Sollers have all written enthusiastically about his work.


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Average rating: 3.91 · 7,668 ratings · 648 reviews · 100 distinct works
Story of the Eye
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 3,644 ratings — published 1928 — 27 editions
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Erotism: Death and Sensuality
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 640 ratings — published 1957 — 15 editions
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Blue of Noon
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1957 — 15 editions
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Visions of Excess
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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The Accursed Share 1: Consu...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 1949 — 4 editions
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The Tears of Eros
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions
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My Mother/Madame Edwarda/Th...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
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The Impossible
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions
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Literature and Evil
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1957 — 9 editions
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Theory of Religion
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1973 — 5 editions
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Quotes by Georges Bataille

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ”
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“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.”
― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality
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