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Georges Bataille

French intellectual and literary figure (1897–1962)

  • Fame58.7
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia38.5K
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Lived 1897–1962, aged 65France
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  • Wikipedia
    52 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1897–1962
    Aged 65
  • Known for
    Ma mère
    2004
Summary
Updated 2026-06-10

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

Biography

About

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.

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Sourced, dated quotes from Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille
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Today, I am overjoyed at being an object of horror and repugnance to the one being whom I am bound to...
— Blue of the Noon (1935)
Georges Bataille
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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.
— Blue of the Noon (1935)
Georges Bataille
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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.
— Blue of the Noon (1935)
Georges Bataille
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I used to shut my eyes and let it shine redly through my lids. The sun was fantastic – it evoked dreams of explosion.
— Blue of the Noon (1935)
Georges Bataille
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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’.
— Blue of the Noon (1935)
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