Edited by Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys, trans. from the French by Chris Turner. Seagull, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-80309-060-3
In this erudite volume, scholars Toscano (Fanaticism) and Noys (Georges Bataille) collect the critical works of French thinker and novelist Georges Bataille (1897–1962), touching on topics including philosophy, literature, religion, geopolitics, art,
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Georges Bataille, Author, Stuart Kendall, Editor, Michelle Kendall, Translator Zone Books (NY) $32.95 (210p) ISBN 978-1-890951-55-9
Fans of the filthy modernist masterpiece The Story of The Eye may be surprised when they encounter Bataille (1897-1962) in an almost academic mode-but, if so, they are forgetting that Bataille was the founder of the journal Critique, that he was a...
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Georges Bataille, Author Lapis Press $0 (161p) ISBN 978-0-932499-55-4
To many Western critics, Bataille (1897-1962) stands as one of the most arresting and influential writers of this century. Accordingly, this first English translation of Le Coupable will surely gratify those interested in contemporary intellectual...
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Georges Bataille, Author, Austryn Wainhouse, Translator, Yulio Mishima, Illustrator Marion Boyars Publishers $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7145-2886-1
Existence, for Georges Bataille, ""is an unbearable surpassing of being, an act no less unbearable than that of dying . . . when the fullness of horror and of joy coincide."" His Nietzschean-inspired vision of erotic excess that is inseparable from...
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