#georgesbataille

[lforlimbo]

"A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism"

[abridurif]

Vivre est follement, mais sans retour, jeter les dés. C’est affirmer un état de grâce et non s’embarrasser des suites possibles. Dans le souci des suites, commencent l’avarice et l’angoisse. La seconde tient à la première, elle est le tremblement que donne la chance. Souvent l’angoisse punit une avarice naissante, l’engageant dans sa perversion accomplie, qu’est l’angoisse. Georges Bataille, Le Coupable, Gallimard, 1961

[autoeroticalgolania]

The Solar Anus - Georges Bataille

only a few pages, give it a go

FULL PDF includes:

The Solar Anus

Materialism

Formless

Rotten Sun

The Pineal Eye

The Sacred Conspiracy

[moma-prints]

Untitled drawing for Soleil vitré, Georges Bataille, c. 1925, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Transferred to the Drawings Collection from the Eluard Dausse Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Library Size: 11 1/2 x 8 3/4" (29.2 x 22.2 cm) Medium: Colored pencil and crayon on paper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/84983

[shockertv]

Blue of the Noon
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_jLVyMnXqf/?igshid=x7pkyrz8bmr7

[rjdent]

Georges Bataille’s The Dead Man, translated by R J Dent

A review by Amanda Hodgson

This translation of Georges Bataille’s The Dead Man was a review copy sent to me by the translator. I joked about the synopsis sounding like my time at university. Three short pages in made a joke of that statement. Known then for ‘Taking Things Too Far’, I didn’t go to a strange pub naked under my coat and give myself a quick feel before entering, fucking strangers and pissing on one of them. I did some of those things in a non-linear order. These are parallels which I inevitably draw, because I have my memories which are easier to write about than comparing this translation to the original work in French. I don’t read French.

Marie is maddened with grief. The titular dead man is her lover Edouard. The first chapter is boldly entitled in shouty caps: MARIE IS ALONE WITH EDOUARD, WHO HAS DIED. Similar capitalized titles include MARIE DRINKS FROM A BOTTLE and MARIE CLIMBS UPON A CHAIR.

I initially found this book too much; too much for this person with a limit of Anais Nin for erotica. I considered the book to be prurient, pretentious and gross. What changed? I don’t know. The cool assuredness of RJ Dent’s English version of Bataille’s prose does much to provide a bridge from the unadorned scatology to the beautiful, with sentences such as:

“She was suspended in an incomprehensible emptiness. Despite this, she remained committed to the light, to the foliage, to the birds filling the wood.”

Toward the novella’s denouement, Marie is described as “simultaneously tired, full of hatred, and indifferent.” That was most of my twenties. There was some hope though, some light, some knowing the creaturely natural joys: “Despite the agitated mood she was in, Marie knew she had a connection with the sun.”

If one wants to get Jungian, which I do, always, we have the figure of the Count as Marie’s animus. The Count enrages Marie and she insists he come with her to the conclusion at her home, in a room with the corpse of Edouard. His laconic, composed behaviour contrasts with Marie’s wildness, her desperation. The book ends outside in nature, with a peaceful image: a stillness after and between the very violence of nature itself: “A heavy splash momentarily disturbed the stillness and silence of the water. The sun shone.”

Georges Bataille’s The Dead Man, translated into English by R J Dent is available from Ragged Lion Press:

https://www.raggedlionpress.co.uk/product-page/the-dead-man-georges-bataille-translated-by-r-j-dent

R J Dent is a poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He has published eleven books, including translations of Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil, Lautreamont’s Songs of Maldoror and Alcaeus’ Poems & Fragments.

Details of his books and other publications are available at: www.rjdent.com

Amanda Hodgson is a UK-based writer. She has published short stories and articles in a variety of magazines and journals. Her books include Feed The Need, Microlives, and Holy Water and are available here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=amanda+hodgson+books&rh=n%3A341689031&fbclid=IwAR31-T1eblzUMeVKQaexypx-d_7I66SZIzX4dynK6r5U4FdisbQriqG4pTo&sprefix=+amanda+hodgson&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_14

[veereads]

“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned....” #StoryOfTheEye #GeorgesBataille

[zarayushas]

"J'ai espéré la déchirure du ciel (...) je l'ai espérée, mais le ciel ne s'est pas ouvert. Il y a quelque-chose d'insoluble dans cette attente de bête de proie blottie et rongée par la faim. L'absurdité : "Est-ce Dieu que j'aimerai déchirer ?" Comme si j'étais une véritable bête de proie, mais je suis plus malade encore. Car je ris de ma propre faim, je ne veux rien manger, je devrais plutôt être mangé. L'amour me ronge à vif : il n'est plus d'autre issue qu'une mort rapide. Ce que j'attends est une réponse dans l'obscurité où je suis. Peut-être, faute d'être broyé, je demeurerais le déchet oublié ! Aucune réponse à cette agitation épuisante : tout reste vide. Tandis que si... mais je n'ai pas de Dieu à supplier."

Georges Bataille - le coupable

[yourdisappointedarms]

“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.” #georgesbataille #french #writer #philosophy #literature #anthropology #economics #sociology #arthistory #surrealism #mysticism #eroticism #trangression #deathanniversary #practicedying (at Akron, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzp4TkthiTO/?igshid=56c673e5dere

[lforlimbo]

No greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.

"What I want, is that you love me even unto death. For my part, it is in death I love you at this very instant. But I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

[abridurif]

La chance a le pouvoir d’aimer la mort, et pourtant ce désir la détruit (moins sûrement que la haine ou la peur de la mort). Le tracé de la chance est difficile à suivre : à la merci de l’horreur, de la mort, mais il ne peut s’en détacher. Sans l’horreur, sans la mort, en un mot sans le risque de l’horreur, de la mort, où serait l’enchantement de la chance ? Georges Bataille, Le Coupable, Gallimard, 1961

[autoeroticalgolania]

https://www.instagram.com/autoeroticalgolania/

[moma-prints]

Untitled drawing for Soleil vitré, Georges Bataille, c. 1925, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Transferred to the Drawings Collection from the Eluard Dausse Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Library Size: 8 7/8 x 6 7/8" (22.5 x 17.5 cm) Medium: Ink on notebook paper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/84990

[kradify]

#georgesbataille by @lmv_h (à Montgeron) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrFG55uB7TY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fjm53w3eo8aw

[aidamannerheim]

Georges Bataille.

[sex-death-rebirth]

Surrealist Erotica // by Joan Pope erotic ritual invocations of artists and writers related to Surrealism and Dada