The Beast at Heaven's Gate: Georges Bataille and the Art of TransgressionAndrew Hussey The essays in this collection were originally given at the international colloquium Cent Ans de Bataille: La Bataille de Cent Ans held at the Fondació Tàpies in Barcelona in September 1998. They are written from a variety of perspectives but are drawn together by the singular aim of addressing and interrogating Georges Bataille as our contemporary whose fascination with the rupture between mythical and experimental forms of discourse defines our own age as much as it did in Bataille's own time. More precisely, the essays in this collection range over Bataille's status as a novelist, a poet, an art critic, a philosopher and a prophet of post-modernity with this aim in mind. They not only seek to advance and clarify debate about Bataille's present status in the post-modern canon but also shed new light on the complex relation between Bataille and the present generation of readers who have come to him through the prism of post-modernist thought. It is of significance for each writer in this collection, most crucially, that the premonition of catastrophe which defined Bataille's fluid political positions is also located between tragedy and irony. |
Contents
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LEschatologie trouée de Ma Mère | 23 |
Georges Bataille et Elio Vittorini La hantise du politique | 45 |
Dirty Life London Paris Barcelona Trier Frankfurt | 61 |
InformeSublimeAbject | 73 |
The Corpse of Laure | 81 |
Klossowskis Readings of Bataille | 91 |
The Eye of the Storm Female Representation in Batailles Madame Edwarda and Histoire de loeil | 101 |
Masochism Fetishism and Subjectivity in Georges Batailles Histoire de loeil | 111 |
Philippe Sollers and the Act of Writing | 127 |
Informe and Anti Form | 143 |
Notes on Contributors | 155 |
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