The Beast at Heaven's Gate : Georges Bataille and the art of transgression / edited by Andrew Hussey.

Includes bibliographical references.

Chiefly in English; three contributions in French.

Print version record.

The Beast at Heaven's Gate; Table of Contents; The Beast at Heaven's Gate: Georges Bataille and the Art of Transgression; Le Secret du corps de Madame Edwarda (Bataille de la philosophie à la limite de l'obscène); L'Eschatologie trouée de Ma Mère; Deux écrivains face à l'histoire: Georges Bataille et Elio Vittorini. La hantise du politique; Dirty Life London -- Paris -- Barcelona -- Trier -- Frankfurt; As Above So Below: Informe/Sublime/Abject; 'The Slaughterhouse of Love': The Corpse of 'Laure'; From Recuperation to Simulacrum: Klossowski's Readings of Bataille

The Eye of the Storm -- Female Representation in Bataille's Madame Edwarda and Histoire de l'oeil'The Law of the Mother': Masochism, Fetishism and Subjectivity in Georges Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil; The Use-value of Georges Bataille: Philippe Sollers and the Act of Writing; Informe and 'Anti Form'; Notes on Contributors

The essays in this collection were originally given at the international colloquium Cent Ans de Bataille: La Bataille de Cent Ans held at the Fondació Tàpies in Barcelona in September 1998. They are written from a variety of perspectives but are drawn together by the singular aim of addressing and interrogating Georges Bataille as our contemporary whose fascination with the rupture between mythical and experimental forms of discourse defines our own age as much as it did in Bataille's own time. More precisely, the essays in this collection range over Bataille's status as a novelist, a poet, an.

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