Set against the backdrop of Europes slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors. One of Batailles overtly political works, it explores the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force, bringing violence, power and death together in a terrifying unity."Georges Bataille is one of the most important writers of the century"Michel Foucault[box]Also available:My Mother Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man,TP $14.95, 0-7145-3004-2 CUSALiterature and EvilTP $14.95, 0-7145-0346-0 CUSALAbbé CTP $14.95, 0-7145-2448-X CUSA
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Blue of Noon
Set against the backdrop of Europes slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors. One of Batailles overtly political works, it explores the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force, bringing violence, power and death together in a terrifying unity."Georges Bataille is one of the most important writers of the century"Michel Foucault[box]Also available:My Mother Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man,TP $14.95, 0-7145-3004-2 CUSALiterature and EvilTP $14.95, 0-7145-0346-0 CUSALAbbé CTP $14.95, 0-7145-2448-X CUSA
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