Sibe Sorkh is the publisher of the book translated into Persian by Farzad Karimi. ”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is ...

In her memoir The Sexual Life of Cathérine M, Cathérine Millet claims that she and her fellow late-Sixties swingers "found a ready-made philosophy reading Bataille". Even allowing for the ...

This issue of politics is devoted entire to French political thought, with contributions from notable figures such as Georges Bataille, Simone de… ...

Call for Papers for the Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium -- "Cultural Capital: Canons, Cultures, and Contexts" at the University of Illinois: 27-30 March 2003 Georges Bataille's writings on ...

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Based on the 1928 novella written by Georges Bataille, the film takes place in a seemingly abandoned house where a group of people engage in bizarre wordless acts. Just as the book does, the film ...

French philosopher Georges Bataille believed that review essays could be a powerful tool for exploring the post-war cultural landscape and political ideologies. After the Second World War, he wrote ...

Even by the standards of French literature, Georges Bataille was a serious pervert. He was also, at least for part of his life, mad. Pornographic novels such as The Story of the Eye, and Blue of Noon, ...

Dionysiac philosopher George Bataille, whose “The Story of the Eye” glorified eroticism and long has enjoyed cult status, died 40 years ago this year, so the current exhibition at the Hyde Park Art ...