Literature and Evil

Literature and Evil

EnglishEbook
Bataille, Georges
Penguin Books Ltd
EAN: 9780141965970
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'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Bront 's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument.
EAN 9780141965970
ISBN 0141965975
Binding Ebook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date October 4, 2012
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Bataille, Georges
Translators Hamilton, Alastair