Blue Of Noon

Description

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, "Blue of Noon" is one of Bataille's most overtly political works, exploring the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force and synthesising the fetishes of violence, power and death that mesmerized an age. In this classic of twentieth century eroticism, the reader is taken on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors.

Reviews

'The writing is superlative ... daringly imaginative, intended only for those awake and aware of the possibilities of excess - in literature and in life. Along with Celine and Breton, Bataille writes as if he were dropping a bomb; in a fore-flash he creates a world of demented funereal sexuality.' Detroit Free Press

Author description

Georges Bataille was born in 1897 and died in 1962. His combination of scholarship and creative genius assured his pre-eminence among his generation of French intellectuals.