Eroticism

Informationen zum Autor Georges Bataille, French essayist and novelist, was born in 1897. He converted to Catholicism, then to Marxism, and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism. As curator of the municipal library in Orleans, he led a relatively simple life, although he became involved, usually on the fringes, with the surrealist movement. He founded the literary review Critique in 1946, which he edited until his death in 1962, and was also a founder of the review Documents, which published many of the leading surrealist writers. His writing is a mixture of poetry and philosophy, fantasy and history, and his first novel, Story of the Eye , was written under the pseudonym of Lord Auch. Bataille's other works include the novels Blue of Noon , L'Abbé C and My Mother , and the volumes of essays Eroticism and Literature and Evil . Klappentext An influential exploration of sex and its surrounding taboos. Zusammenfassung Linking the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, this title offers an array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as includes comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa.

Product details

• Authors: Georges Bataille, Mary Dalwood
• Assisted by: Mary Dalwood (Translation), Dalwood Mary (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780141195568
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119556-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Sociology, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects