By Andrew Hussey (Editor)
The essays during this assortment have been initially given on the foreign colloquium Cent Ans de Bataille: los angeles Bataille de Cent Ans held on the Fondaci? T?pies in Barcelona in September 1998. they're written from various views yet are drawn jointly by way of the singular target of addressing and interrogating Georges Bataille as our modern whose fascination with the rupture among legendary and experimental kinds of discourse defines our personal age up to it did in Bataille’s personal time. extra accurately, the essays during this assortment variety over Bataille’s prestige as a novelist, a poet, an paintings critic, a thinker and a prophet of post-modernity with this objective in brain. They not just search to enhance and make clear debate approximately Bataille’s current prestige within the post-modern canon but in addition shed new gentle at the complicated relation among Bataille and the current new release of readers who've come to him in the course of the prism of post-modernist idea. it's of importance for every author during this assortment, so much crucially, that the premonition of disaster which outlined Bataille’s fluid political positions is usually positioned among tragedy and irony. desk of Contents Andrew HUSSEY: The Beast at Heaven’s Gate: Georges Bataille and the artwork of Transgression Boris BELAY: Le mystery du corps de Madame Edwarda (Bataille de l. a. philosophie ? l. a. limite de l’obsc?ne) Martin CROWLEY: L’eschatologie trou?e de Ma M?re Lina FRANCO: Deux ?crivains face ? l’histoire: George Bataille et Elio Vittorini. los angeles hantise du politique Patrick FFRENCH: soiled lifestyles Paul HEGARTY: As Above, So under; Informe/Sublime/Abject Andrew HUSSEY: ‘The Slaughterhouse of Love’: The Corpse of ‘Laure’ Ian JAMES: From restoration to Simulacrum: Klossowski’s Readings of George Bataille Cathy MACGREGOR: the attention of the hurricane: girl illustration in Bataille’s Madame Edwarda and Histoire de l’oeil John PHILIPS: ‘The legislations of the Mother’: Masochism, Fetishism and Subjectivity in George Bataille’s Histoire de l’oeil Malcolm POLLARD: The Use-Value of Georges Bataille: Philippe Sollers and the Act of Writing Richard WILLIAMS: Informe and ‘Anti shape’ Notes on individuals
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La fin, longtemps désirée, et qui, enfin, arrive – sans arriver. Le texte ne jouira pas: inavouable, son point culminant s’inscrit en s’effaçant. [Ah, serre les dents mon fils tu ressembles à ta pine, à cette pine ruisselante de rage qui crispe mon désir comme un poignet] L’inceste figure ainsi dans le texte comme sa limite, atteinte sans jamais l’être, réalisation et avatar ultimes de la figure de l’eschaton troué: la fin qui n’en est pas une. Ici, à sa fin, le texte ne finit pas: ses dernières lignes ne sont pas seulement encore une directive adressée par la mère à son fils, elles n’évoquent pas seulement la présence d’un désir incestueux, elles ne sont pas seulement mises entre crochets: elles ne sont même pas la fin.
La publication en 1951 de l’article ‘Le vie degli ex-comunisti’ [Les voies des ex-communistes] sanctionne de fait le divorce de Vittorini d’avec le parti. Et comme dans tous les mariages qui n’ont jamais fonctionné dès la première heure, la nouvelle rencontre plus de soulagés que de déçus. Exactement dix ans plus tard, la revue Comprendere publie l’article ‘L’équivoque de la culture’ dont Georges Bataille est l’auteur. Les relations – et l’opposition – de la culture et du pouvoir sont analysées à partir de la question ‘des devoirs de “l’homme de culture”’.
34 L’eschatologie trouée de Ma Mère Je m’adressai debout à ce Dieu qui, dans mon cœur, me déchirait, et que ce cœur en se brisant ne pouvait contenir. Il me sembla dans mon angoisse que le vide m’envahisssait. J’étais moi trop petit, trop minable. Je n’étais pas à la mesure de ce qui m’accablait, de l’horreur. J’entendis le tonnerre tomber. Je me laissai glisser sur le tapis. 27 L’incapacité du jeune Pierre d’embrasser l’horreur le force à se réfugier dans la foi; mais l’impossibilité de la rédemption s’annonce déjà, dans les descriptions de l’instance divine comme vide, comme déchirure intérieure.
