My Mother Madame Edwarda The Dead Man

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241215869

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My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by Georges Bataille Pdf

In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Madame Edwarda is the story of a prostitute who calls herself God, and The Dead Man, published in 1964 after Bataille's death, is a startling short tale of cruelty and desire. This volume also contains Bataille's own introductions to his texts as well as essays by Yukio Mishima and Ken Hollings.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016322518

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The Dead Man by Georges Bataille Pdf

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241215395

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Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille Pdf

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, this is a novel torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors, and is one of the twentieth century's great nihilist works.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035263503

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My Mother by Georges Bataille Pdf

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Random House
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141913674

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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Pdf

Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Amok Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021856474

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The Trial of Gilles de Rais by Georges Bataille Pdf

Georges Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experience--the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death--Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, trials and confessions of this grotesque and still-horrifying 15th-century child-murderer, sadist, alchemist, necrophile and practitioner of the Black Arts. Gilles de Rais began his remarkable career as lieutenant to the devout martyr and saint Joan of Arc; after her execution, he fled to his estates in the countryside of France, where he began to ritually slaughter hundreds of children. After his arrest and subsequent trials, he was hanged and burned at Nantes, France on October 25, 1440. The latter section of The Trial of Gilles de Rais consists of the actual ecclesiastical and secular trial transcripts, annotated by Bataille, and translated from the ecclesiastical Latin by Pierre Klossowski.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Death
ISBN : 0141184108

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Eroticism by Georges Bataille Pdf

A librarian, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', George Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. Although published at the start of the 'sexual revolution', Eroticism (1857) totally rejects the gospel of 'liberation'. Everywhere, it argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, and everywhere we transgress against them in our desperation to overcome an agonizing sense of separation from other people. In developing this central theme, Bataille offers a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and the violence at the heart of religious ritual. The result is one of the strangest and most compelling books ever written about sex.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141965970

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Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Pdf

'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Verso
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0860914194

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The Absence of Myth by Georges Bataille Pdf

For Bataille, 'the absence of myth' had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had 'lost the secret of its cohesion', Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. The Absence of Myth is the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. Clarifying Bataille's links with the surrealist movement, and throwing revealing light on his complex and greatly misunderstood relationship with Andre Breton, The Absence of Myth shows Bataille to be a much more radical figure than his postmodernist devotees would have us believe: a man who continually tried to extend Marxist social theory; a pessimistic thinker, but one as far removed from nihilism as can be. Introduced and translated by Michael Richardson.

Author : Jeremy Biles
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823227785

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Ecce Monstrum by Jeremy Biles Pdf

In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a ferociously religioussensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacred.Bataille enacts a monstrousmode of reading and writing in his approaches to other thinkers and artists-a mode at once agonistic and intimate. Ecce Monstrum examines this mode through investigations of Bataille's sacrificialinterpretations of Kojve's Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche; his contentious relationship with Simone Weil and its implications for his mystical and writing practices; his fraught affiliation with surrealist Andr Breton and his attempt to displace surrealism with hyperchristianity; and his peculiar relations to artist Hans Bellmer, whose work evokes Bataille's religious sensibility

Author : Denis Hollier
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262581132

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Against Architecture by Denis Hollier Pdf

Over the past 30 years the writings of Georges Bataille have had a profound influence on French intellectual thought, informing the work of Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes, among others. Against Architecture offers the first serious interpretation of this challenging thinker, spelling out the profoundly original and radical nature of Bataille's work.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141195568

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Modern Classics Eroticism by Georges Bataille Pdf

A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as including comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa. Everywhere, Eroticism argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, which we must continually transgress in order to overcome the sense of isolation that faces us all.

Author : Elizabeth Peters
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780334554

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The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters Pdf

Prospects for the 1907 archaeological season in Egypt are looking somewhat dull to Amelia. As a result of Emerson's less-than-diplomatic behaviour, they have been demoted to examining only the most boring tombs in the Valley of the Kings - mere leftovers, really. And then, in a seedy section of Cairo, the younger members of the Peabody Emerson clan purchase a mintcondition papyrus of the famed Book of the Dead, the collection of magical spells and prayers designed to ward off the perils of the underworld and lead the deceased into everlasting life. But for as long as there have been graves, there have also been grave robbers - and so begins a new adventure into antiquity. The season rapidly switches from dull to deadly as Amelia strives to untangle a web woven of criminals and cults, stolen treasures and fallen women - all the while under the unblinking eye of a ruthless, remorseless killer.

Author : Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791424553

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On Bataille by Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons Pdf

Essays on the French writer and critic Georges Bataille, that examine his thought in relation to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816612838

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Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille Pdf

Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of society to the primeval. This collection of prewar writings remains the volume in which Batailles’s positions are most clearly, forcefully, and obsessively put forward.This book challenges the notion of a “closed economy” predicated on utility, production, and rational consumption, and develops an alternative theory that takes into account the human tendency to lose, destroy, and waste. This collection is indispensible for an understanding of the future as well as the past of current critical theory.Georges Bataille (1897-1962), a librarian by profession, was founder of the French review Critique. He is the author of several books, including Story of the Eye, The Accused Share, Erotism, and The Absence of Myth.