Literature and Evil Paperback / softback
by Georges Bataille
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
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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 Brontë'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.
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- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:07/06/2012
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- ISBN:9780141195575
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:07/06/2012
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- ISBN:9780141195575