Literature and Evil

Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays, Poetry, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Georges Bataille ISBN: 9780141965970
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Publication: October 4, 2012
Imprint: Penguin Language: English
Author: Georges Bataille
ISBN: 9780141965970
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication: October 4, 2012
Imprint: Penguin
Language: English

'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 Brontë'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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'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 Brontë'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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