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Impossible
Georges Bataille
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Paperback. Translator(s): Robert Hurley. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy. "Humanity is faced with a double perspective: in one direction, violent pleasure, horror and death - precisely the perspective of poetry - and in the opposite direction, that of science or the real world of utility. Only the useful, the ... Read more
In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy. "Humanity is faced with a double perspective: in one direction, violent pleasure, horror and death - precisely the perspective of poetry - and in the opposite direction, that of science or the real world of utility. Only the useful, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872862623
SKU
V9780872862623
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