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21. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture by Georges Bataille | |
Paperback: 224
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(2009-04-30)
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A Man Like Us |
22. Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (Modern European Thinkers) by Bejamin Noys | |
Hardcover: 176
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(2000-08-01)
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23. Guilty by Georges Bataille | |
Paperback: 161
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(1988-10)
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24. Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille | |
Paperback: 162
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(2002-05-01)
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A Review by Dr. Joseph Suglia
More languid than arousing
a severely underrated masterpiece Bataille's style is always one of brutal elegance. He's like a lover who slaps you in the face, only to pull you into a gentle embrace a moment later. The main character, Troppman, is the star here - he is a deviant trying is best not to be. Ahhhh, the internal struggles - do you stay married and live your life as a respectable, productive member of society. Or do you run off with [prostitutes] and derelicts to indulge the savage needs you've so long supressed. Not to be outdone, his brightest co-star, is a woman named Dirty. She is a beautiful creation. She is a train wreck of a woman. She and Troppman braid themselves together in clearly conspicuous codependence of the worst sort, bawdy drunkeness paving the pathways to irrevocable damnation. I also enjoyed Lazare; a woman Troppman finds himself thoroughly disgusted with, she has no redeeming features. Yet, he cannot stay away. If you are a fan of the madman Bataille, don't miss out on this one. I think this is truly some of his best work.
a severely underrated masterpiece Bataille's style is always one of brutal elegance. He's like a lover who slaps you in the face, only to pull you into a gentle embrace a moment later. The main character, Troppman, is the star here - he is a deviant trying is best not to be. Ahhhh, the internal struggles - do you stay married and live your life as a respectable, productive member of society. Or do you run off with whores and derelicts to indulge the savage needs you've so long supressed. Not to be outdone, his brightest co-star, is a woman named Dirty. She is a beautiful creation. She is a train wreck of a woman. She and Troppman braid themselves together in clearly conspicuous codependence of the worst sort, bawdy drunkeness paving the pathways to irrevocable damnation. I also enjoyed Lazare; a woman Troppman finds himself thoroughly disgusted with, she has no redeeming features. Yet, he cannot stay away. If you are a fan of the madman Bataille, don't miss out on this one. I think this is truly some of his best work.
De Sade's nephew gets all sociopolitical. At various times, he agonizes over his relationships with his wife, his sexual partners, and his deceased mother. He becomes embroiled in a Communist revolutionary plot in Barcelona, with one of his sexual partners, a Jewish woman, involved in its planning and execution. He reveals his necrophilic obsession to two of his partners, further revealing the exact, even more sickening, subject of his obsession to one of them. He has sex, he gets sick, his women have sex, they get sick, everybody has sex, everybody gets sick. For the punchline, near the end of the novel, Bataille throws Nazis into the picture, showing us that all the depravity of fascism is comparable to the depravity he has shown us all along. Though published in 1957, the book was originally written in 1936. This reviewer isn't buying it. Not a word of it. Not the story, not even the "1936" part. For one thing, the writing style is actually more mature than that of "L'Abbe C", published in 1950. Bataille is most probably trying to show off that he detected the evil inherent in the Nazis "way back when". I don't give him that much credit. For another thing, I think he uses Nazis as an easy way to score "scary" points. One might intellectualize his choice by saying Bataille is trying to tell us that no matter how disgusting humans may act, at least we're not as bad as Nazis. Imagine a murderer begging leniency because he's not a Nazi. He's still a murderer. It seems Bataille is using Nazis to justify the pornography he just wrote, as if the world is such a horrible place that pornography is just another little bit of it, and tries to throw a philosophical wrench into the works, as if saying life is meaningless in the face of all the horrible things fascism is doing to us in Europe, but I suspect it was all done just for the hell of it. I frankly don't see any rhyme or reason to the thematic choices he makes. I have nothing against the depravity or explicit nature of the book. "Been there, done that", right? It's not even all that explicit, there's probably less sex in this book than the average mainstream novel today, and he's certainly not advocating committing even the slightest harm to anyone. There are a few disturbing or distasteful ideas here and there, but one never gets the sense Bataille really means what he's writing. One gets the sense he's simply trying to come up with every juxtaposition of immoral behavior and social taboo he can, just to tweak the reader's moral compass a bit, trying to get a cheap rise out of his audience. Maybe this was an interesting exercise in 1957 (or "1936"), but given the state of depravity which existed in Germany during the 1920s, and the state of sexual liberation which swept Europe from the late 19th century through the early 20th century, I strongly doubt it. Perhaps the target reader for this book will be the person interested in twisted versions of 19th-century literature (Bataille wrote like someone living 50 or 100 years before his time), or the works of De Sade (albeit in highly shortened format, this book being only 126 pages). ... Read more |
25. Reading Bataille Now | |
Hardcover: 304
Pages
(2006-12-18)
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Editorial Review Product Description Contributors are Alison Leigh Brown, Andrew Cutrofello, Zeynep Direk, Jesse Goldhammer, Dorothy Holland, Pierre Lamarche, Richard A. Lee, Jr., Alphonso Lingis, Ladelle McWhorter, Lucio A. Privitello, Allan Stoekl, Amy Wendling, and Shannon Winnubst. |
26. Unfinished System Of Nonknowledge by Georges Bataille | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(2004-11-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Following Bataille's lead, as laid out in his notebooks, editor Stuart Kendall assembles the fragments that Bataille anticipated collecting for his summa. Kendall's introduction offers a clear picture of the author's overall project, its historical and biographical context, and the place of these works within it. The "system" that emerges from these articles, notes, and lectures is "atheology," understood as a study of the effects of nonknowledge. At the other side of realism, Bataille's writing in La Somme pushes language to its silent end. And yet, writing toward the ruin of language, in search of words that slip from their meanings, Bataille uses language-and the discourses of theology, philosophy, and literature-against itself to return us to ourselves, endlessly. The system against systems is in fact systematic, using systems and depending on discourses to achieve its own ends-the end of systematic thought. A medievalist librarian by training, Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was active in the French intellectual scene from the 1920s through the 1950s. He founded the journal Critique and was a member of the Acéphale group and the Collège de sociologie. Among his works available in English are Visions of Excess (Minnesota, 1985), Tears of Eros (1989), and Erotism (1990). Stuart Kendall and Michelle Kendall are freelance translators who live in Stony Brook, New York. |
27. Georges Bataille (Volume 0) by Dr Michael Richardson, Michael Richardson | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(1994-06-21)
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unclear on the concepts
Bataille, considered from a position of sobriety... |
28. Violent silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille by GEORGES]. Buck, Paul. ed. [BATAILLE | |
Paperback: 112
Pages
(1984)
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29. The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil(British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) by Patrick French | |
Hardcover: 200
Pages
(2000-03-23)
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30. Violent silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille by GEORGES]. Buck, Paul. ed. [BATAILLE | |
Paperback: 112
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(1984)
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31. World Authors Series: Georges Bataille (Twayne's World Authors Series) by Roland A. Champagne | |
Hardcover: 140
Pages
(1998-08-01)
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32. Georges Bataille (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives) by Stuart Kendall | |
Paperback: 192
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(2007-08-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Georges Bataille was arguably the greatest influence on the poststructuralist revolution in twentieth-century thought and literature, yet few truly understand his work and legacy. Stuart Kendall now translates the work and life of this renowned French writer, anthropologist, and philosopher into a concise yet informative biography that reveals fascinating facets of this intellectual giant. Until his death in 1962, Bataille was an instrumental force in philosophical debate, acting as a foil for both Surrealism and Existentialism and advocating radical views that spanned the entire spectrum of political thought. Georges Bataille chronicles these aspects of his intellectual development, as well as tracing out his pivotal role in the creation of the College of Sociology and how his writings in aesthetics and art history laid the groundwork for visual culture studies. Kendall positions Bataille at the heart of a prodigous community of thinkers, including André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Lacan. A compelling account, Georges Bataille will be invaluable for all thinkers who have benefited from Bataille’s lasting contributions. |
33. The Dead Man by Georges Bataille, Lord Ouch, Jayne Austen, Andy Masson | |
Paperback: 60
Pages
(1989-10-01)
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Confrontation with death with drunken sex While the bookcan be read quickly, multiple readings are needed to tease out meaning(s)... and it is well worth those multiple readings. ... Read more |
34. Bataille: Writing the Sacred (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) | |
Paperback: 216
Pages
(1994-12-21)
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35. Monde a l'envers, texte reversible: La fiction de Georges Bataille (Situation) (French Edition) by Brian T Fitch | |
Paperback: 188
Pages
(1982)
Isbn: 2256908151 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
36. La Part Maudite (predede deLa Notion de Depense, Collection Critique) by Georges Bataille | |
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(1967)
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37. Critique; Aout-Septembre Homage a Georges Bataille 1963 - No 195-196 by g bataille | |
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(1963)
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38. Excessive Narratives: Georges Bataille, Self-Sacrifice & the Communal Language of the Yucatec Maya & U Chan Tsola'ni Ek Balam (The Short Story of The Black Cat) (Axis Series) by Robert John Brocklehurst | |
Paperback: 94
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(2009-04-01)
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39. Georges Bataille: Actes du Colloque International d'Amsterdam (Faux Titre 30) (French Edition) by Jan Textes, Versteeg | |
Paperback: 146
Pages
(1987-01)
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40. L'Abbe C. de Georges Bataille: Les structures masquees du double (Faux titre) (French Edition) by Elisabeth Bosch | |
Paperback: 175
Pages
(1983-01)
Isbn: 9062038050 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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