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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... kind of exhilaration in this and a kind of terror ; both of which extreme emotions the author is only too willing to exploit . Yet , much like Troppmann , the disaffected narrator of Blue of Noon , the passage of these awful events ...
... kind of exhilaration in this and a kind of terror ; both of which extreme emotions the author is only too willing to exploit . Yet , much like Troppmann , the disaffected narrator of Blue of Noon , the passage of these awful events ...
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... kind of idiot , extremely touching perhaps , but in any case ludicrous . I still used to think about Lazare . It gave me a start every time . Exhaustion gave her a significance like that of the black streamer that had frightened me in ...
... kind of idiot , extremely touching perhaps , but in any case ludicrous . I still used to think about Lazare . It gave me a start every time . Exhaustion gave her a significance like that of the black streamer that had frightened me in ...
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... kind of wheelless hearse . This bed , or hearse , was surrounded by a certain number of men and women ; the same , apparently , as my companions of the previous evening . The vast room was no doubt a theatre , and these men and women ...
... kind of wheelless hearse . This bed , or hearse , was surrounded by a certain number of men and women ; the same , apparently , as my companions of the previous evening . The vast room was no doubt a theatre , and these men and women ...
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The Evil Omen | 19 |
Motherly Feet | 33 |
Antonios Story | 69 |
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