Literature and Evil

Author : Georges Bataille

Paperback

Published : Thursday 7 June 2012

ISBN : 9780141195575

Price : €12.86

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Description

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

'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 Bronte'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.

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