'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 Bront???'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 allusion and powerful ...
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'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 Bront???'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 allusion and powerful argument.
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New. A collection of essays that explores subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression. Translator(s): Hamilton, Alastair. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152. 2012. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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