'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument.
- ISBN10 0714503452
- ISBN13 9780714503455
- Publish Date March 1973
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 179
- Language English