Literature and Evil
Author: Bataille, George
ISBN: 9780141195575
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 20 Jul 2012
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
An extraordinary collection of essays arguing for literature's complicity with evil, new to Penguin Modern Classics
'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 Bronte'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.
ISBN: 9780141195575
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 20 Jul 2012
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
An extraordinary collection of essays arguing for literature's complicity with evil, new to Penguin Modern Classics
'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 Bronte'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.
