Bataille’s first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. ...
Continue Reading βJean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this ...
Continue Reading βThe unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not ...
Continue Reading βPart of the Penguin Classics campaign celebrating 100 years of Albert Camus, ‘A Sea Close By’ reveals the writer as a sensual witness of landscapes, ...
Continue Reading βAndrea Alciati’s Emblematum Liber was an essential work for every writer, artist and scholar in post-medieval Europe. First published in 1531, this illustrated book was ...
Continue Reading ββ€οΈ On Religion π is a book that delves into the cosmos surrounding two meditation pavilions, crafted for a Buddhist community nestled at the foot ...
Continue Reading βGeorges Bataille considered The Accursed Share, his radical critique of economic theories based on rational categories of need, scarcity, and utility, his most important project. ...
Continue Reading βIn this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He ...
Continue Reading βSet in North Africa, Paris, and Brazil, the six stories in this masterful collection reveal probing portraits of spiritual exile, and manβs perpetual search for ...
Continue Reading βWith photographs by Hans Hinz and an epilogue by Rita Bischof. At a time when the animal and plant world, the βwild lifeβ, seem more ...
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