Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction

by Benjamin Noys

Book Overview

This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day - surrealism and existentialism - and shows that it was his very marginality that accounted in large part for his subsequent importance for the post-structuralists and the counterculture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745315879
• ISBN13: 9780745315874
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"