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'Abbé C TP $14.95, 0-7145-2448-X • CUSA |
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Very few people can look at this face . Brutal and uncaring , it expresses a sexuality as intense and undeniable as an open wound . Finally we dispose of the idea that our culture is the result of some benign process of sublimation .
( This man , who was in his forties , may have had the face of a thieving gravedigger , but it was of such an unctuosity that it seemed to have been pickled in oil . ) ' A glass of whisky ? ' Dirty asked . No one answered .
My eyes had been lowered ; I looked up : it was a beggar , in his thirties , who wore on his head a bandanna tied under his chin and broad yellow goggles across his face . He stared at me out of his big eyes for a long time .
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Crítica de los usuarios - Kristelh - LibraryThingA nihilist novel by Georges Bataille, Blue of Noon, is set during the Spanish Civil War and the early years of Nazi movement. The protagonist, Henri Timmermann is a sick man (physically and ... Leer comentario completo
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Crítica de los usuarios - amerynth - LibraryThingWhile I didn't actually hate Georges Bataille's "Blue of Noon," I really didn't get it either. This supposed to be a novel that used eroticism to show how sex, violence and power is intertwined and ... Leer comentario completo
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