Nasty, brutish and short on ideas George Walden labours under the pretensions of this study of the degradation-obsessed writer Georges Bataille

The Sunday Telegraph London | August 11, 2002| | Copyright

Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography

by Michel Surya

Verso, pounds 25, 586 pp

pounds 25 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

GEORGES BATAILLE will be familiar to many only as a French writer of the 1930s who wrote things once considered rather shocking. If that is all we know it may be because it is all we need to know. The aim of this translation - note the portentous title - is presumably to persuade the Anglo-Saxons that he was a much bigger fish.

The blurb tells us he was a precursor of Michel Foucault, who understandably returned the compliment by calling him one of the most important ...

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