Name: Louis xxx
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Author: Georges Bataille
ISBN: 9780957121355

Type

Physical Book

Author

Georges Bataille

Translated by

Stuart Kendall

Publisher

Equus Press

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.0 x 12.0 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN13

9780957121355

Synopsis "Louis xxx "

Louis XXX presents two little known hybrid texts by French novelist and philosopher Georges Bataille: The Little One and The Tomb of Louis XXX. Written alongside Bataille's major work, Guilty, and only loosely narrative in any conventional sense, these audaciously experimental pieces of pornographic chamber music commingle prose and poetry, fiction and autobiography, philosophical and theological meditations, abstract artifice and intimate confession, bound together by the mysterious pseudonym at their center. Jean-Jacques Pauvert claimed that The Little One was the most "shattering" text that Bataille ever wrote and André Breton remarked that The Little One "offers the most hungering, most moving aspect of [Bataille's] thought and attests to the importance that that thought will have in the near future." The future is now as these texts appear in English for the first time. An extended postface by the translator places the works in biographical, historical, and critical perspective as assemblages constellated around the disappearance of the discursive real.Best Foreign-Language Reprint 2013, Chicago Center for Literature & Photography"Here is the crux of Bataille: the admixture of pain and pleasure, torture and eroticism." Robert Kiely, Review 31"An obscure work in the history of transgressive literature has, for the first time, been given definitive and due recognition." Matt Pincus, Pank Magazine"In both of these fragmentary, hallucinatory, and sexually explicit works, we can see Bataille's influence in authors like Kathy Acker and William S. Burroughs." Karl Wollf, The Driftless Area ReviewStuart Kendall is a writer, editor, and translator working at the intersections of poetics, modern and contemporary visual culture, theology, ecology, and design. His books include Georges Bataille (Reaktion Books, Critical Lives, 2007), The Ends of Art and Design (Infrathin, 2011), and eight book-length translations of French poetry, philosophy, and visual and cultural criticism, including books by Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Paul Éluard, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, and René Char. In 2012, Contra Mundum published his Gilgamesh, a new version of the eponymous Mesopotamian poems.

Georges Bataille

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Georges Bataille (1897–1962) fue un escritor, filósofo, ensayista y bibliotecario francés, reconocido por su influencia en la filosofía, la literatura y el pensamiento contemporáneo. Nació el 10 de septiembre de 1897 en Billom, Francia, y estudió en la École Nationale des Chartes, donde se especializó en paleografía y archivística. Durante gran parte de su vida trabajó como bibliotecario en la Bibliothèque nationale de France, mientras desarrollaba una intensa actividad intelectual.

Su obra aborda temas como el erotismo, la muerte, el sacrificio, lo sagrado y los límites de la experiencia humana. Entre sus libros más importantes se encuentran Historia del ojo, El erotismo, La parte maldita y La experiencia interior. Sus escritos combinan filosofía, literatura y antropología para explorar aspectos de la existencia que escapan a la razón y las normas sociales.

Bataille también fundó revistas y grupos intelectuales que reunieron a destacados artistas y pensadores de su época. Su pensamiento influyó profundamente en autores como Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida y Jean Baudrillard. Aunque sus ideas fueron consideradas controvertidas en su tiempo, hoy es una figura fundamental para comprender la filosofía francesa del siglo XX y los debates sobre la cultura, el deseo y la transgresión.

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