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Title: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14) by Georges Bataille ISBN: 0-8166-1283-8 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: July, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: reductionism in a more poetic form
Comment: in reponse to stevie, i'd say that andre breton has left us infinitely more to 'go on' than the far too reductionist bataille. unlike bataille, breton was not living in the shadow of his idols (bataille:sade) but trying to generate something new. bataille's assessment of nietzsche and the surrealists as romantic icaruses also seems a self assessment; bataille could never rise above his 'need to go below'. he was guilty of precisely the same things he accused the surrealists of.
Rating: 5
Summary: Georges Bataille was NOT a surrealist
Comment: He and Breton (the dead ox, vile priest, castrated lion of surrealism) violently attacked one another precisely because Bataille was opposed to the idealism and the upstanding morals of surrealism. Bataille is probably spinning in his grave at the mere thought that his legacy would be trashed by the sloppy reference to him as a member of religion he so hated.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: Im so impresed with this mans work I am obsessed. He is a rare breed of intelligence. He has a piece in this called 'Mouth" which refers tothe position our heads take well being thrown back in a scream as that of an extension to our spines, inother words that we assume an animal architecture to our bones in the most extreme pains. Batailles constant opinions detailed here in wonderful totaly controlled short pieces , is for me, the only truly awful reading I have ever done. A music piece I often play also has this effect. It is genuis to have the power of horror in works not involving the 'supernatural". I am in awe of this odd,dead man.
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Title: Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille, Mary Dalwood ISBN: 0872861902 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel ISBN: 0872862097 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption by Georges Bataille, Robert Hurley ISBN: 0942299116 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 26 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille, Peter Connor ISBN: 0872862224 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Inner Experience (Suny Series : Intersections : Philosophy and Critical Theory) by Georges Bataille, Leslie A. Boldt ISBN: 0887066356 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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