Georges Bataille
Author · 41 books
French essayist, philosophical theorist, and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental act of communion. Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Sollers have all written enthusiastically about his work.
Series
Books
Divine Filth
2004
The Solar Anus
1931
Das obszöne Werk
1978
The Sacred Conspiracy
The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acéphale and Lectures to the College of Sociology
1997
L'Archangélique et autres poèmes.
1944
The Trial of Gilles de Rais
1959
Manet
1955
The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
2001
Encyclopaedia Acephalica
1995
My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man
1966
The Absence of Myth
Writings on Surrealism
1994
Acéphale
1937
Dark Star
The Satanic Rites of Gilles de Rais
2005
Guilty
1944
Madame Edwarda, O Morto, História do Olho
1973
Story of the Eye
1928
The Accursed Share
An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
1949
The Accursed Share
An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty
1976
L'Abbé C
1950
ساختار روانشناختی فاشیسم
1978
Literature and Evil
1957
Wim Delvoye
Cloaca - New & Improved
2002
Blue of Noon
1935
The Limit of the Useful
1976
Mi madre
1966
Prehistoric Painting
Lascaux or the Birth of Art
1955
Essential Writings
1998
The Bataille Reader
1997
The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille
1971
On Nietzsche
1945
Karl Blossfeldt
Art Forms in Nature
1994
Madame Edwarda seguido de El muerto
1941
The Dead Man
1964
The Impossible
1962
The Cradle of Humanity
Prehistoric Art and Culture
2005
Theory of Religion
1948
The Tears of Eros
1961
Erotism
1957
Inner Experience
1943
Visions of Excess
1985
Madame Edwarda
1941
