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Bataille, Georges (1897–1962) Summary
1,304 words, approx. 4 pages Bataille, Georges(1897–1962) Georges Bataille is a pivotal thinker in the history of twentieth-century thought, in a literal sense. His work serves as a pivot between any number of significant early twentieth-century trends, and later movements...
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Georges Bataille Information
2,087 words, approx. 7 pages
 Georges Bataille (pronounced [ʒɔʀʒ baˈtaj]) (September 10, 1897 – July 9, 1962) was a French writer. Although subsequent philosophers have been significantly influenced by his thought, Bataille tended not to refer to himself as a...


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Georges Bataille Quotes
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 Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it....


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 Journal of European Studies
Bataille and surrealist pornography: dance or treadmill?. (Georges Bataille)
03/01/1995: 7,164 words, approx. 24 pages Georges Bataille's work entitled 'Story of the Eye' is considered as both pornographic and surrealist. It is pornographic in the sense that it dehumanizes and intrudes into private acts and contains violent eroticism. It is surrealist because it distorts reality and contains image juxtapositions...
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 Twentieth Century Literature



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Peter Tracey Connor
28,876 words, approx. 96 pages
 In the following essay, Connor argues that Bataille's system of thought engendered an ethical structure despite its inherent paradoxes.
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Critical Essay by Andrew Hussey
14,269 words, approx. 48 pages
 In the following essay, Hussey discusses Bataille's interpretation of mysticism and subsequent critical reaction to it.
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Critical Essay by Suzanne Guerlac
13,602 words, approx. 45 pages
 In the following essay, Guerlac explores various readings, and misreadings, of Bataille's notion of transgression.


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