The Tears of Eros - Georges Bataille - Books - City Lights Books - 9780872862227 - January 18, 2001
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The Tears of Eros

Georges Bataille

The Tears of Eros

Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims, Bataille reveals their common obsession: death.

This essay, illustrated with artwork from every era, was developed out of ideas explored in Erotism: Death and Sexuality and Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the Birth of Art. In it Bataille examines death?the ""little death"" that follows sexual climax, the proximate death in sadomasochistic practices, and death as part of religious ritual and sacrifice.

Georges Bataille was born in Billom, France, in 1897. He was a librarian by profession. Also a philosopher, novelist, and critic he was founder of the College of Sociology. In 1959, Bataille began Tears of Eros, and it was completed in 1961, his final work. Bataille died in 1962.


213 pages, Illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 18, 2001
ISBN13 9780872862227
Publishers City Lights Books
Pages 213
Dimensions 178 × 203 × 13 mm   ·   440 g
Language English  
Translator Connor, Peter

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