Blue of NoonPenguin, 2001 - 128 páginas One of the twentieth century's great nihilist novels, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and terror that retains all its shocking power today. Set in pre-war Europe, its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters - his journey into madness mirroring the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Confronting Fascism, the novel is torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the violent glamour of its terrible victors. One of the most brilliant intellects and influential French writers of his time, Bataille's unflinching exploration of the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization defies all our expectations. |
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... Noon is a novel that is as driven as a car whose driver has lost control . To read it is to share vicariously in being drunk at the narrative wheel , your foot spasmodically jamming down on the acceler- ator , while events loom out of ...
... Noon is a novel that is as driven as a car whose driver has lost control . To read it is to share vicariously in being drunk at the narrative wheel , your foot spasmodically jamming down on the acceler- ator , while events loom out of ...
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... all alien . The next moment I would childishly imagine going and eating with her in one of the restaurants on the harbour . We would eat all sorts of spicy things I liked , then we would go to the 93 The Blue of Noon.
... all alien . The next moment I would childishly imagine going and eating with her in one of the restaurants on the harbour . We would eat all sorts of spicy things I liked , then we would go to the 93 The Blue of Noon.
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... Noon originated entirely in an anguish to which I was prey . These anomalies are the ground of Blue of Noon ; but I was so far from assuming that this ground was a guarantee of quality as to refuse to publish the book , which was ...
... Noon originated entirely in an anguish to which I was prey . These anomalies are the ground of Blue of Noon ; but I was so far from assuming that this ground was a guarantee of quality as to refuse to publish the book , which was ...
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The Evil Omen | 19 |
Motherly Feet | 33 |
Antonios Story | 69 |
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