georges bataille

A shocking and intense narrative from the author of }Story Of The Eye{. Translated by Philip A. Facey

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurch

In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surr

'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complici

A deft reconstruction of what Georges Bataille envisioned as a continuation of his work La Somme Athéologique, this volume brings together the writing

A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille

Louis XXX presents two little known hybrid texts by French novelist and philosopher Georges Bataille: The Little One and The Tomb of Louis XXX. Writte

A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Cl

Théorie de la religion is een synthese van het oeuvre van de invloedrijke 20e-eeuwse Franse filosoof Georges Bataille. Het postuum uitgegeven werk is

In Een man die slaapt trekt Georges Perec de lezer mee in een bewustzijn dat verkeert in het grensgebied tussen waken en slapen. Een glashelder geschr

The first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher's later thought. In the decade prior t

Omdat schrift evolueert doorheen de tijd, is oud schrift vandaag soms moeilijk te lezen. Paleografie is de vaardigheid die nodig is om teksten in oud

René Delfosse en Jean Chabot, twee jongens van verschillende komaf, gaan op een avond samen naar de Luikse nachtclub Gai-Moulin met het idee zich in d