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3rd reading: 2015
I read this again because I had just read an essay by Bataille about evil in literature and Wuthering Heights was the first book he discussed and I was surprised – I had never considered WH having any evil. But Bataille made some good points about the obsessiveness of the relationship between Catherine & Heathcliff –their profound desire to return to the wildness of childhood and how their relationship borders on a mystical religious absorption and other complicated things. In a ...more
I read this again because I had just read an essay by Bataille about evil in literature and Wuthering Heights was the first book he discussed and I was surprised – I had never considered WH having any evil. But Bataille made some good points about the obsessiveness of the relationship between Catherine & Heathcliff –their profound desire to return to the wildness of childhood and how their relationship borders on a mystical religious absorption and other complicated things. In a ...more
Sep 20, 2011
Megan Stembridge
marked it as to-read
