Blue of NoonSet against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors. One of Bataille's overtly political works, it explores the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force, bringing violence, power and death together in a terrifying unity. "Georges Bataille is one of the most important writers of the century"--Michel Foucault [box] Also available: "My Mother Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man, " TP $14.95, 0-7145-3004-2 - CUSA "Literature and Evil " TP $14.95, 0-7145-0346-0 - CUSA "L'Abbe C" TP $14.95, 0-7145-2448-X - CUSA |
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... chair . With great difficulty she managed to set down a bottle and a glass on the floor beside her . Her eyes were growing heavy . Her eyes tried to find me . I was no longer there . She lost her head . In a desperate voice she called ...
... chair . There was a long silence : you could have heard our hearts inside their bodies . I walked over to the door , pale and sick , my face smeared with blood ; I was hiccupping and on the point of vomiting . In terror the servants saw ...
... chair , I fastened the rope , and then I started wanting to know how it would feel . I didn't know whether or not I would change my mind once I kicked over the chair . But I untied the rope and got down from the chair . I fell on the ...