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Literature and Evil

by Unknown Author

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208 pages2012Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780141195575
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"In this collection of essays, first published in France in 1957, Georges Bataille explores the value of evil as expressed in literature. 'Literature is not innocent,' Bataille writes in his preface. 'It is guilty and should admit itself so.' It is only by acknowledging its complicity in the knowledge of Evil that literature can communicate fully. This idea is explored through a series of remarkable studies on the work of eight outstanding authors; Emily Bronte, Baudelaire, Blake, Michelet, Kafka, Proust, Genet and de Sade."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Published
2012
Pages
208
ISBN
9780141195575

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