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Bataille has been called a "metaphysician of evil," specializing in blasphemy, profanation, and horror.Story of the Eye, written in 1928, is his best-known work; it is unashamedly surrealistic, both disgusting and fascinating, and packed with seemingly endless violations. It's something of an underground classic, rediscovered by each new ...
Hace 1 día · In a work published in 1970, Mishima wrote that the writers he paid most attention to in modern western literature were Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Witold Gombrowicz. Acting and modelling Mishima poses for a photograph, 1961.
Hace 2 días · Gilles de Rais (c. 1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army during the Hundred Years' War, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc.He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of children.. In 1429, he formed an alliance with his cousin Georges de La Trémoille, the ...
Hace 4 días · I cheered her on with every page, and wished--for myself and all girls--for the bravery to create our own world." --Maggie Thrash, author of Honor Girl The first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to be translated into English, La Bastarda is the story of the orphaned teen Okomo, who lives under the watchful eye of her grandmother and dreams of finding her father.
Hace 3 días · Background. Strategic considerations. Japanese control of the western Pacific area between May and August 1942. Guadalcanal is located in the lower right center of the map. On 7 December 1941, Japanese forces attacked the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Hace 4 días · This paper attempts to point out what is the divergence in the thought of Taro Okamoto and Georges Bataille. In this paper, I mainly referred to the records of Bataille’s activities in the 1930s, and analyzed the ideas of negativity and subjectivity.
Hace 6 días · In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille’s central ideas – the sacred, community and eroticism – are explored in detail. Bataille’s project to understand social bonds and energies at their most fundamental level and to re-energise society by challenging individualism is argued to be of continuing relevance to ...
