Literature and Evil

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 A collection of essays that explores subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that explores subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression.

Product details

• Authors: Georges Bataille, Alastair Hamilton
• Assisted by: Alastair Hamilton (Translation), Hamilton Alastair (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780141195575
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119557-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers