Literature and Evil  -  Georges Bataille

KORTE INHOUD

'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 Brontë'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 allus...
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2012 Uitgever: Penguin 208 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0141195576 ISBN-13: 9780141195575