Georges Bataille

Born	September 10, 1897(1897-09-10) Billom, France
Died	July 9, 1962(1962-07-09) (aged 64) Paris, France
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Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (1897–1962) was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, anthropology, philosophy, economy, sociology and history of art. Eroticism, sovereignty, and transgression are at the core of his writings. He edited Documents, Acéphale and Critique magazines.

Works

(in French unless noted)

Edited magazines

• Documents: doctrines, archéologie, beaux-arts, ethnographie, 15 issues, Paris, 1929-31.
• Acéphale: religion, sociologie, philosophie, 4 issues, Paris, 1936-39.
• Critique.

Books

• Les Monnaies des grands Mogols, Paris: J. Florange, [1927].
• L'Anus solaire, illustr. André Masson, Editions de la Galerie Simon, 1931.
• Sacrifices, c1922-40.
• as Dianus, L'Amitié, 1940. Early version of Part One of Le Coupable.
• as Louis Trente, Le Petit, 1943.

• L'Expérience intérieure, Paris: Gallimard, 1943; 2nd ed., 1954. Part of Bataille's Summa Atheologica.
  • Inner Experience, trans. Leslie Anne Boldt, SUNY Press, 1988, 209 pp. (English)

• L'Archangélique, 1944.

• Le Coupable, 1944; 2nd ed., rev., 1961. Part of Bataille's Summa Atheologica.
  • Guilty, trans. Bruce Boone, Lapis Press, 1988. (English)
  • Par-delà la colline ou l'instant, illustr. Claude Stassart-Springer, Vézélay: Goulotte, 2012, 32 pp.

• Sur Nietzsche, 1945. Part of Bataille's Summa Atheologica.
  • On Nietzsche, trans. Bruce Boone, Paragon House, 1992. (English)

• Dirty, Paris: Fontaine, 1945.
• L'Alleluiah, 1947.
• Méthode de méditation, Paris: Fontaine, 1947, 93 pp.

• La Part maudite, Paris: Minuit, 1949; new ed., 1967.
  • Die Aufhebung der Ökonomie, Munich: Matthes & Seitz, 2nd ed., exp., 1985; 3rd ed., exp., 2001. (German)
  • The Accursed Share: An Essay On General Economy, 3 vols., trans. Robert Hurley, Zone Books, 1988 & 1991, 197 & 460 pp, PDF/1, PDF/2-3. (English)

• Manet. Études biographique et critique, Genève: Skira, 1955.
  • Manet: Biographical and Critical Study, trans. Austryn Wainhouse and James Emmons, Genève: Skira, 1955, 135 pp. (English)

• La Peinture préhistorique. Lascaux, ou la Naissance de l'art, 1955.
  • Lascaux; or, the Birth of Art, the Prehistoric Paintings, trans. Austryn Wainhouse, Lausanne: Skira, 1955. (English)

• L'Erotisme, Paris: Minuit, 1957.
  • El erotismo, trans. María Luisa Bastos, 1960. (Spanish)
  • Death and Sensuality. A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo, trans. Mary Dalwood, New York: Walker and Company, 1962; repr. as Erotism: Death and Sensuality, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1986, 280 pp. (English)
  • L’erotismo, trans. Adriana dell’Orto, 1962. (Italian)
  • O erotismo, trans. Antonio Carlos Viana, 1987. (Portuguese)
  • Erotismul, trans. Dan Petrescu, Bucharest: Nemira, 1997; 2005. Review (Romanian)

• Le Procès de Gilles de Rais, 1965.
  • The Trial of Gilles de Rais, trans. Richard Robinson, Amok Press, 1991. (English)

• La Littérature et le Mal, 1957.
  • Literature and Evil, trans. Alastair Hamilton, Calder & Boyars, 1973. (English)

• Les Larmes d'Éros, 1961.
  • The Tears of Eros, trans. Peter Connor, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1989. [1] (English)

• Théorie de la religion, ed. Thadée Klossowski, Paris: Gallimard, 1973.
  • Theory of Religion, trans. Robert Hurley, Zone Books, 1989. (English)

Novels and novellas

• as Lord Auch, Histoire de l'œil, 1928.
  • Story of the Eye, trans. Joachim Neugroschel, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1987, 104 pp. (English)

• as Pierre Angélique, Madame Edwarda, Solitaire, 1941; 2nd ed., 1945; 3rd ed., 1956. Antidated 1937.
  • "Madame Edwarda", in Bataille, My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man, trans. Austryn Wainhouse, London: Marion Boyars, 1989. (English)

• La haine de la poésie, 1947; repr. as L'Impossible: Histoire de rats suivi de Dianus et de L'Orestie, 1962.
  • The Impossible. A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia, trans. Robert Hurley, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1991, 164 pp. (English)

• L'Abbé C., Paris: Minuit, 1950.
  • L'Abbé C., trans. Philip A Facey, London: Marion Boyars, 2001. (English)

• Le bleu du ciel: roman, Paris: Pauvert, 1957, 215 pp. Written 1935.
  • L'azzurro del cielo, Milan: Silva, 1962, 171 pp. (Italian)
  • Das Blau des Himmels. Roman, trans. Sigrid von Massenbach and Hans Naumann, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1967, 178 pp. (German)
  • Het blauw van de hemel: roman, trans. Thérèse Cornips, Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1972, 167 pp. (Dutch)
  • El azul del cielo: novela, Barcelona: Ayuso, 1976, 185 pp. (Spanish)
  • Blue of Noon, trans. Harry Matthews, New York: Urizen Books, 1978, 126 pp; London: Marion Boyars, 1979. (English)
  • Het blauw van de hemel: roman, trans. Walter van der Star, Brussels: Gevaert, 2000, 152 pp. (Dutch)
  • El Blau del cel, trans. Ramon Lladó, Lleida: March, 2009, 154 pp. (Catalan)
  • To galazio tou ouranou, Athens: Agra, 2010, 230 pp. (Greek)

• Ma mère, Paris: Pauvert, 1966. Unfinished and published posthumously.
  • "My Mother", in Bataille, My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man, trans. Austryn Wainhouse, London: Marion Boyars, 1989. (English)

• Le Mort, Paris: Pauvert, 1967.
  • "The Dead Man", in Bataille, My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man, trans. Austryn Wainhouse, London: Marion Boyars, 1989. (English)

Collected writings

• Œuvres complètes, 12 vols., Paris: Gallimard, 1970-88, PDF/1, PDF/2, PDF/5, PDF/7, PDF/10, PDF/11, PDF/12.
• Une liberté souveraine: Textes et entretiens, ed. Michel Surya, 2004. Articles, book reviews and interviews not included in Œuvres complètes.

Selected writings

• Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939, eds. Allan Stoekl, Carl R. Lovitt, and Donald M. Leslie, Jr., University of Minnesota Press, 1985. (English)
• October 36: "George Bataille. Writings on Laughter, Sacrifice, Nietzsche, Un-Knowing", trans. Annette Michelson, New York: MIT Press, Spring 1986, 154 pp, ARG. With texts by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, and Allen S. Weiss. (English)
• Bataille, et al., The College of Sociology, 1937–39, trans. Betsy Wing, University of Minnesota Press, 1988. (English)
• The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism, ed., trans. & intro. Michael Richardson, London: Verso, 1994, vii+211 pp. (English)
• Bataille, Leiris, Griaule, Einstein, Desnos, et al., Encyclopædia Acephalica, ed. & intro. Alastair Brotchie, trans. Iain White, et al., London: Atlas Press, 1995, 176 pp. (English)
• The Bataille Reader, ed. Fred Botting and Scott Wilson, Wiley, 1997, 368 pp. (English)
• Collected Poetry of Georges Bataille, trans. Mark Spitzer, Dufour, 1998; repr. as Collected Poems of Georges Bataille, 1998. (English)
• Romans et récits, pref. Denis Hollier, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, 2004.
• The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge, ed. & intro. Stuart Kendall, trans. Michelle Kendall and Stuart Kendall, University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Selections from 12 vols. of Œuvres complètes. (English)
• Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, eds. Dawn Ades and Simon Baker, London: Hayward Gallery, and MIT Press, 2006, 272 pp.
• L'Archangélique et autres poèmes, Paris: Gallimard, 2008.
• The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture, ed. & intro. Stuart Kendall, trans. Michelle Kendall and Stuart Kendall, Zone Books, 2009. Collects essays and lectures by Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. [2] (English)
• Divine Filth: Lost Scatology and Erotica, trans. Mark Spitzer, Solar Books, 2009. A collection of erotic prose and scatological fragments. (English)
• Le Souverain, drawings Vladimir Velickovic, Fata Morgana, 2010, 88 pp.

Literature

• Semiotext(e) 2(2): "Bataille", ed. Sylvère Lotringer, New York: Semiotext(e), 1976. (English)
• Denis Hollier, La prise de la Concorde, Paris: Gallimard, 1974.
  • Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille, trans. Betsy Wing, MIT Press, 1989, ARG. (English)
• Benjamin Noys, Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction, Pluto Press, 2000. (English)

Documentary

• Georges Bataille - À perte de vue, dir. André S. Labarthe, 1997, 48 min. (EN subs)