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Georges Bataille

French intellectual and literary figure (1897-1962) · France · Writers · Died at 64

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A philosopher who made eroticism, transgression, and the ecstatic limits of reason his central subjects - writing that unsettled surrealists and seeded post-structuralism.

WritersWriter / AuthorLiteraturePhilosophyFranceEurope20th Century

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1962Died9 July 19621935“Today, I am overjoyed at being an object of horror and repugnance to the one being whom I am bound to...”In their wordsBlue of the Noon (1935)

“We’re like a farmer working his land before the storm, walking down his fields with lowered head, knowing that the hail is bound to fall.”In their wordsBlue of the Noon (1935)

“I used to shut my eyes and let it shine redly through my lids. The sun was fantastic - it evoked dreams of explosion.”In their wordsBlue of the Noon (1935)

“I was jealous of people with a God to hang onto, whereas I … soon all I’d have left would be ‘eyes to cry with’.”In their wordsBlue of the Noon (1935)

“I sank into the moist body the way a well-guided plough sinks into earth.”In their wordsBlue of the Noon (1935)

1927“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.”In their wordsThe Solar Anus (1927)

1897Born10 September 1897

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  1. Today, I am overjoyed at being an object of horror and repugnance to the one being whom I am bound to...

    1935, Blue of the Noon (1935), Own words

  2. We’re like a farmer working his land before the storm, walking down his fields with lowered head, knowing that the hail is bound to fall.

    1935, Blue of the Noon (1935), Own words

  3. All that I had loved during my life rose up like a graveyard of white tombs, in a lunar, spectral light. Fundamentally, this graveyard was a brothel.

    1935, Blue of the Noon (1935), Own words

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Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was born on 10 September 1897 and died on 8 July 1962. A French intellectual who ranged across philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and the history of art, he produced essays, novels, and poetry that pressed into eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. The writing refused easy categorization and carried a dark, boundary-testing energy. It would go on to shape post-structuralism and later schools of philosophy and social theory, leaving a mark on how thinkers approached desire, violence, and the sacred.

Country
France
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1962 · aged 64

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