Modern Classics Literature And Evil
Modern Classics Literature And Evil by Georges Bataille is a thought-provoking collection of essays published by National Geographic Books on July 31, 2012. This UK edition spans 208 pages and is presented in English. In this work, Bataille asserts that literature is inherently linked to the concept of evil, suggesting that a deeper understanding of this relationship enhances the communication of literary themes.
Readers will encounter literary profiles of eight notable authors, including Emily Brontë, Baudelaire, Sade, Kafka, and Sartre, as Bataille delves into subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth, and transgression. Through rich allusion and compelling argumentation, this collection invites exploration of the darker aspects of literature and its connection to the human experience.
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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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