Georges Bataille
Discover the provocative mind of Georges Bataille through this curated list featuring Erotism, Story of the Eye, Divine Filth, and The Trial of Gilles de Rais. Explore his transgressive fiction, dark history, and philosophy—essential reads on desire, death, and excess. Dive into Bataille’s most iconic books today.
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Erotism
by Georges Bataille
Reprint. Originally published: Death and sensuality. New York: Walker, 1962.
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Divine Filth
by Georges Bataille
"Divine Filth is a collection of long-overlooked erotic prose and scatological fragments rivaled only by Georges Bataille's most well-known work, "Story of the Eye, for pure "pornographic" content that transcends the limits of literature and the self. These are the shattered mystic visions of a seminal Surrealist with a deep thirst for the negation of consciousness through ecstasy, humiliation, depravity and pain.
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The Trial of Gilles de Rais
by Georges Bataille
Written by France's famous connoisseur of transgression - the man the surrealist Andre Breton labelled an 'Excremental philosopher' - THE TRIALS OF GILLES DE RAIS is the best thing now available in English on one of the most bizarre figures in European history.' - New York Times Book Review'
