Georges Bataille
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born
December 13, 1901
died
July 08, 1962
gender
male
place of birth
Billon, Puy-de-Dôme, France
genre
Literature & Fiction
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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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille avg rating 3.82 — 1,463 ratings — published 1977 11 editions |
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Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille avg rating 4.13 — 254 ratings — published 1957 7 editions |
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Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille avg rating 3.70 — 189 ratings — published 1978 9 editions |
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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14) by Georges Bataille avg rating 4.32 — 149 ratings — published 1985 4 editions |
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Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption by Georges Bataille avg rating 4.24 — 123 ratings — published 1991 |
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The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille avg rating 3.96 — 112 ratings — published 1989 |
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My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man by Georges Bataille avg rating 3.92 — 102 ratings — published 1989 2 editions |
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The Impossible by Georges Bataille avg rating 3.93 — 89 ratings — published 1991 |
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Theory of Religion by Georges Bataille avg rating 4.03 — 73 ratings — published 1989 2 editions |
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L'Abbe C by Georges Bataille avg rating 3.51 — 83 ratings — published 1972 5 editions |
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"The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth."
— Georges Bataille
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— Georges Bataille
"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. "
— Georges Bataille
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— Georges Bataille
"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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— Georges Bataille (Erotism: Death and Sensuality)
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