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Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939
 
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Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 [Paperback]

Georges Bataille
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5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing and beautiful!, Oct 9 1997
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This review is from: Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Paperback)
Bataille was French surrealist who wrote like an alien trapped on a hostile planet. In searing essays like "the Solar Anus," he almost convinces you that the end is not just near, but here. Disturbing and beautiful, this book is highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, May 21 1998
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Im so impresed with this mans work I am obsessed. He is a rare breed of intelligence. He has a piece in this called 'Mouth" which refers tothe position our heads take well being thrown back in a scream as that of an extension to our spines, inother words that we assume an animal architecture to our bones in the most extreme pains. Batailles constant opinions detailed here in wonderful totaly controlled short pieces , is for me, the only truly awful reading I have ever done. A music piece I often play also has this effect. It is genuis to have the power of horror in works not involving the 'supernatural". I am in awe of this odd,dead man.
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5.0 out of 5 stars reductionism in a more poetic form, Mar 1 2004
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in reponse to stevie, i'd say that andre breton has left us infinitely more to 'go on' than the far too reductionist bataille. unlike bataille, breton was not living in the shadow of his idols (bataille:sade) but trying to generate something new. bataille's assessment of nietzsche and the surrealists as romantic icaruses also seems a self assessment; bataille could never rise above his 'need to go below'. he was guilty of precisely the same things he accused the surrealists of.
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