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Blue of Noon by BATAILLE GEORGES
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 fi ...Show more
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille; Mary Dalwood (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss ...Show more
Literature and Evil by George Bataille, Georges Bataille
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'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 Bro ...Show more
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Georges Bataille's first novel is widely regarded as the erotic masterpiece of the 20th century. It appears here together with two essays: Susan Sontag's study of the literature of sex, "The Pornographic Imagination", and Roland Barthes's critical essay on the text, "The Metaphor of the Eye'.
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche ...Show more
The Accursed Share, Volume I: Volume 1: Consumption by Georges Bataille
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. Unlike conventional economic models based on noti ...Show more
The Accursed Share, Volumes II & III by Georges Bataille
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: very good
The three volumes of "The Accursed Share" address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. The first volume, the only one published before Bataille's death, treated this paradox in ...Show more
The Sacred Conspiracy - The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille + André Masson (Illustrator)
69.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Georges Bataille's secret society, long the stuff of legend, is now revealed in its texts, meditations, rules and prohibitions. This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which the influential philosopher, cultural theorist and occasional pornograph ...Show more
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