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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The electric light was getting blindingly bright . It was unbearable , this light that
wore out the eyes . There was a knock at the door . The maid came in , followed
by the elevator attendant . Dirty slumped onto the chair . After what seemed to me
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... white tombs , in a lunar , spectral light . Fundamentally , this graveyard was a
brothel . The funereal marble was alive . In some places it had hair on it . I looked
at Xenie . With childish terror , I thought : motherly ! Xenie was visibly suffering .
The sun was fantastic – it evoked dreams of explosion . Was there anything more
sunlike than red blood running over cobblestones , as though light could shatter
and kill ? Now , in this thick darkness , I ' d made myself drunk 87 The Blue of ...
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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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