Georges Bataille
Born
in Billon, Puy-de-Dôme, France
September 10, 1897
Died
July 09, 1962
Genre
Influences
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Story of the Eye
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82 editions
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published
1928
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Erotism: Death and Sensuality
by
67 editions
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published
1957
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The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
by
27 editions
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published
1949
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Blue of Noon
by
48 editions
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published
1935
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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939
by
4 editions
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published
1985
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My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man
by
6 editions
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published
1972
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Literature and Evil
by
41 editions
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published
1957
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The Tears of Eros
by
21 editions
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published
1961
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Theory of Religion
21 editions
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published
1973
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The Impossible: A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia
by
14 editions
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published
1947
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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
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“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”
― The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
― The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
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