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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872862623 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100009590 02 0872862623 03 9780872862623 15 9780872862623 BC 1 A01 Bataille, Georges Georges Bataille Georges Bataille was born in Billom, France, in 1897. He was a librarian by profession. Also a philosopher, novelist, and critic he was founder of the College of Sociology. Bataille died in 1962. 2 B06 Hurley, Robert Robert Hurley 01 eng 144 00 144 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy European Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Fiction 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Literature in Translation 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Surrealism 01 <P>In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.</P> 02 In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a... 08 "Humanity is faced with a double perspective: in one direction, violent pleasure, horror and death – precisely the perspective of poetry– and in the opposite direction, that of science or the real world of utility. Only the useful, the real, have a serious character. We are never within our rights in preferring seduction to it: And yet we can, and indeed we must respond to something which, not being God, is stronger than every right, that was impossible, to which we accede only by forgetting the truth of all these rights." Georges Bataille 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100009590/images/87286100009590L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100009590/images/87286100009590S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100009590 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19911201 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19911201 01 02 14.95 USD