The Impossible
In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry and in poems, Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.Humanity is faced with a double perspective: in one direction, violent pleasure, horror and death-precisely the perspective of poetry-and in the opposite direction, that of science or the real world of utility. Only the useful, the real, have a serious character. We are never…
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Weitere Autoren: Hurley, Robert (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-87286-262-3
- EAN: 9780872862623
- Produktnummer: 9257630
- Verlag: City Lights Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 212 g
- Gewicht: 212
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