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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.
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a 'better book' may be unimaginable...,
By ge "helio-cd-books" (NY, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Impossible (Paperback)
...in terms of unpredictability, uniqueness,confessional-poetic-mystic-debauchery and edge-thriving elan (some call it true amour)-- Bataille's work here as in La Somme atheologique trilogy (GUILTY, ON NIETZSCHE, INNER EXPERIENCE) takes la frigging Cake! the last coolest Frenchman, 'e wuz!
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The new Ulysses,
By Soren - Published on Amazon.com
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I believe that one day people will come back to this book and consider it to be as ground breaking for the novel as Ulysses was.It is simply amazing. There were parts that were so haunting and that drew me to such deep unconscious wells that I felt like screaming at the book with all my strength, eating it, and then crawling under my bed chuckling madly. I have seen Her. I have seen Him. And it has all happenned over and over again across the ages. If the future is capable of writing more gems like this, then we have something to look forward to after all. 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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triangulation around a hole void,
By Bruce P. Barten - Published on Amazon.com
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Are we talking to each other or objecting to each other?Impossible (1962) was originally released fifteen years earlier with the title: Hatred of Poetry. People adopt an attitude about things they hate that makes it difficult to have a productive discussion without falling into some secret code. When Haldeman mentioned the Bay of Pigs to Richard Helms after the Watergate break-in, Helms got so mad that Haldeman thought the Bay of Pigs must be a code for the assassination of JFK. Few people considered the Bay of Pigs a highly emotional matter on a personal level. I was 15 years old in 1962, so I think of bombing Cambodia as the kind of thing that needs a secret code. I was 23 years old when I spent a week in Cambodia in May, 1970, with a camera that captured a few pictures of where I was on the last day there, dampened by a rain that started on the night before. Impossible begins with the story of a rat. Being sick is part of the story, and it is so cold that a doctor who is supposed to deliver a letter on his way home stops for a drink and forgets to deliver the letter. Some brains need to write things down so they don't forget anything that is more important than what they desire most. Father A. and the father of B. are two characters in the story of the rat. Father A. has been trained in an irony to still his desires. Americans usually expect to adhere to some form of Christianity, even if a great god has them capture some transcendental ego in Cambodia that makes Vishnu of Lon Nol and Lon Nil. Understanding is a desire that cuts through the official position of those who think that only certain individuals have been authorized to speak to the public. Administrative law has a concept of standing to keep material fetish important in the way disputes are about something more concrete than mere doctrine. A major problem in the story of a rat is the bond between people who are objects of desire for each other. Imagination can make a lump in the snow come back to life if it has not yet frozen to death. Horror is a basic factor in literary life that makes the Bay of Pigs so typical of why secrets are supposed to be kept locked up tight and creative subjectivity responds most strongly to a self it can adhere to. American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas The book American Nietzsche examines ways in which Americans responded to reading Nietzsche. For the founders of the Black Panthers, Nietzsche helped them decide precisely what kind of pigs they should call the cops. 7 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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a 'better book' may be unimaginable...,
By ge "helio-cd-books" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Impossible (Paperback)
...in terms of unpredictability, uniqueness,confessional-poetic-mystic-debauchery and edge-thriving elan (some call it true amour)-- Bataille's work here as in La Somme atheologique trilogy (GUILTY, ON NIETZSCHE, INNER EXPERIENCE) takes la frigging Cake! the last coolest Frenchman, 'e wuz! |
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