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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14)

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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
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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

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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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