Writing Dirty: Paradoxical Embodiments of Nazism in Bataille's "Le Bleu du Ciel"

Authors

Sylvie Vanbaelen, Butler UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2004

Publication Title

Australian Journal of French Studies

First Page

74

Last Page

84

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.41.1.74

Abstract

Since his death in 1962, and particularly in the last twenty-five years, Georges Bataille has become a major figure in intellectual circles. Critics such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, to name but a few, have all contributed to bringing Bataille's work to the foreground. Regarded as a significant influence on contemporary thought, Bataille is considered a precursor of post-modernism. Yet, while he has received increasing attention, this attention has converged primarily on his essays and philosophical works. As Susann Cockal notes, "specific and detailed readings of many aspects of [his] fiction are still wanting".

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Version of record can be found through Liverpool University Press