Georges Bataille is perhaps most famous for his controversial novels, such as Story of the Eye and The Blue of Noon, but he was also a leading philosopher and founder of the influential literary review Critique and had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. In this biography Michel Surya provides a detailed exposition of the themes of Bataille's work as they developed against the backdrop of his life.
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Georges Bataille is perhaps most famous for his controversial novels, such as Story of the Eye and The Blue of Noon, but he was also a leading philosopher and founder of the influential literary review Critique and had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. In this biography Michel Surya provides a detailed exposition of the themes of Bataille's work as they developed against the backdrop of his life.
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