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  <title><![CDATA[Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory &amp; History of Literature)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Georges Bataille]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of uneven; when Bataille is exciting he is very exciting, but in some essays the time shines through (a sort of inherent naivety to the 30s) that sort of tempers many main points.  It's also slightly frustrating knowing that this is really just sort of a sampling of the first volume of the Oeuv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44395964">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Cultural theory, art criticism, philosophy and drunken shamanism all blended together with poetry by the world's most distinguished debauched librarian who favored human sacrifice.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know quite how to feel about this one. In texts like &quot;The Solar Anus&quot; Bataille achieves something stunning, but in the more prosaic pieces such as &quot;The Psychological Structure of Fascism,&quot; I can't really see that he brings anything new to the table. Still he's a colorful ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3706607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bataille is a welcome relief from the dry philosophical inquiries of his era and he has a way of delivering his points with rhetorical flourish, often preferable to dry logical diagnosis.  Who would have thought that one could turn excretion and expenditure into the basis of a philosophy?  His attem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6603175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My only remaining impression of this book is how tickled I was to receive as a Christmas gift from my ultra-Conservative Aunt and Uncle a book containing titles like &quot;The Solar Anus.&quot; I had asked for it, of course, but never got through more than a couple pieces.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting and esoteric. Bataille casts his careful eye over some obscure subjects, but I can see why he's so influential among poststructuralist thinkers. He is a darker Barthes, a more visceral Baudelaire, the textual equivalent of Max Ernst.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Provocative. Parts were beautiful and others were a hard slog to get through. He remains a fascinating thinker of the time. I'm definitely looking forward to diving into his <em>On Nietzsche</em>]]></body>
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    <review id="6201229">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the few books I brought with me when I lived in Japan.  Georges Bataille is one of the great 'thinkers.'  Just to spend time reading him with a glass of sake is a fond memory for me.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What little I read was definitely fascinating...but it's the wrong time to really dive into this book right now. Hope to come back to it another time. ]]></body>
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    <review id="27700387">
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book. As he is often described as a forefather of Foucault and Baudrillard, it will be interesting to read them now and see for myself. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[oh, it's not easy, but boy is it good. and sometimes gross.]]></body>
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    <review id="10730531">
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    <body><![CDATA[not the best selection, but worth it just for &quot;The Solar Anus&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="31284669">
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    <body><![CDATA[Bataille's symbolic universe is captivating. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Postmodern excess, psychoanalytic surrealism and paradox.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[really great small essays.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the labyrinth]]></body>
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