Description
| Product ID: | 9780141195575 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | Literature and Evil |
| Authors: | Author: Georges Bataille, Alastair Hamilton |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A collection of essays that explores subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression. ''Literature is not innocent,'' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë''s Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire''s Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-06-07 |
