The Impossible Bataille GeorgesPaperback
The Impossible Bataille GeorgesPaperback In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry and in poems, Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. He describes a movement…
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The Impossible Bataille GeorgesPaperback
In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry and in poems, Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. 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. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth.
We are never within our rights in preferring seduction to it: truth has rights over us. Only the useful, the real, have a serious character. Indeed it has every right.
And yet we can, and indeed we must respond to something which, not being God, is stronger than every right, that impossible to which
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