Review: Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography: Mixing sex and desire with the great philosopher of death

Scotland on Sunday | August 4, 2002| | Copyright

Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography

Michel Surya

Verso, GBP 25

THE success of the latest US drama, Six Feet Under, signifies a larger societal trend. We are slowly but surely becoming fascinated with the details of dying. Death, one might say, is the new black.

But this phenomenon is not altogether new: there were people there before us. Take Georges Bataille, for example: born in Billon, France, in 1897, this writer became fascinated with dying and decay from an early age. His meditations on the subject were born of his own anguished childhood. Raised by a blind, syphilis-ridden ...

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