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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.
 
'''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==
 
==Works==
(in French unless noted)
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(in French unless noted otherwise)
  
 
[[Image:Acephale_1_Jun_1936.jpg|thumb|258px|''Acéphale'', 1936-39, [[Acéphale|PDFs]].]]
 
[[Image:Acephale_1_Jun_1936.jpg|thumb|258px|''Acéphale'', 1936-39, [[Acéphale|PDFs]].]]
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* ''L'Abjection et les formes misérables'', 1934, re-print, ''Œuvres complètes'', vol. II, Paris: Gallimard, 1970.
 
* ''L'Abjection et les formes misérables'', 1934, re-print, ''Œuvres complètes'', vol. II, Paris: Gallimard, 1970.
** [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/544bf59c334fe009d6b9fef7 ''Abjection and Miserable Forms''], trans. Yvonne Shafir, 1993. {{en}}
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** "Abjection and Miserable Forms", trans. Yvonne Shafir,in: ''More & Less'', ed. Sylvere Lotringer, Pasadena, CA: MIT Press, 1993;  1999, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/544bf59c334fe009d6b9fef7 ARG]. {{en}}
  
 
* as Dianus, ''L'Amitié'', 1940. Early version of Part One of ''Le Coupable''.
 
* as Dianus, ''L'Amitié'', 1940. Early version of Part One of ''Le Coupable''.
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* ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/023223558089c63f00a77811ce3357e1#0.01 L'Expérience intérieure]'', Paris: Gallimard, 1943; 2nd ed., 1954. Part of Bataille's ''Summa Atheologica''; re-print, ''Œuvres complètes'', vol. 5, Paris: Gallimard, 1973, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b0659b7c76364305457772def82b6b6a PDF].
 
* ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/023223558089c63f00a77811ce3357e1#0.01 L'Expérience intérieure]'', Paris: Gallimard, 1943; 2nd ed., 1954. Part of Bataille's ''Summa Atheologica''; re-print, ''Œuvres complètes'', vol. 5, Paris: Gallimard, 1973, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b0659b7c76364305457772def82b6b6a PDF].
 
** "La experiencia interior", in Bataille, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E0B58C68D027A99903B69423B9DE88ED La experiencia interior. Método de meditación, y Post-scriptum 1953]'', Taurus, 1984. {{es}}
 
** "La experiencia interior", in Bataille, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E0B58C68D027A99903B69423B9DE88ED La experiencia interior. Método de meditación, y Post-scriptum 1953]'', Taurus, 1984. {{es}}
** ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=d060adbac070cf90e9dc3600d618b753 Inner Experience]'', trans. Leslie Anne Boldt, SUNY Press, 1988, 209 pp. {{en}}
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** ''[[Media:Bataille_Georges_Inner_Experience.pdf|Inner Experience]]'', trans. Leslie Anne Boldt, SUNY Press, 1988, 209 pp. {{en}}
 
** ''Doświadczenie wewnętrzne'', trans. Oskar Hedemann, intro. Krzysztof Matuszewski, Warsaw: KR, 1998, 296 pp. {{pl}}
 
** ''Doświadczenie wewnętrzne'', trans. Oskar Hedemann, intro. Krzysztof Matuszewski, Warsaw: KR, 1998, 296 pp. {{pl}}
 
** "Vnitřní zkušenost", in Bataille, ''Vnitřní zkušenost. Metoda meditace'', trans. Josef Hrdlička, Prague: Dauphin, 2003. {{cz}}
 
** "Vnitřní zkušenost", in Bataille, ''Vnitřní zkušenost. Metoda meditace'', trans. Josef Hrdlička, Prague: Dauphin, 2003. {{cz}}
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** ''Il dispendio'', ed. Elena Pulcini, trans. Francesco Serna, Rome: Armando, 1997, 87 pp. {{it}}
 
** ''Il dispendio'', ed. Elena Pulcini, trans. Francesco Serna, Rome: Armando, 1997, 87 pp. {{it}}
 
** "Prokletá část", trans. Ladislav Šerý, in Bataille, ''Prokletá část. Teorie náboženství'', Prague: Herrmann & synové, 1998. {{cz}}
 
** "Prokletá část", trans. Ladislav Šerý, in Bataille, ''Prokletá část. Teorie náboženství'', Prague: Herrmann & synové, 1998. {{cz}}
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** ''Partea blestemată. Eseu de economie generală'', trans. Bogdan Ghiu, Iaşi: Institutul European, 1994, 223 pp; 2nd ed., rev., trans. & intro. Bogdan Ghiu, Bucharest: Art, 2008. {{ro}}
 
** ''Część przeklęta: oraz Ekonomia na miarę wszechświata. Granica użytecznego'', trans. Krzysztof Jarosz, Warsaw: KR, 2002, 316 pp. {{pl}}
 
** ''Część przeklęta: oraz Ekonomia na miarę wszechświata. Granica użytecznego'', trans. Krzysztof Jarosz, Warsaw: KR, 2002, 316 pp. {{pl}}
 
** ''A parte maldita: precedido de A noção de despesa'', intro. Jean Piel, trans. Miguel Serras Pereira, Lisbon: Fim de Século, 2005, 239 pp. {{pt}}
 
** ''A parte maldita: precedido de A noção de despesa'', intro. Jean Piel, trans. Miguel Serras Pereira, Lisbon: Fim de Século, 2005, 239 pp. {{pt}}
  
* "L'histoire de l'érotisme" [1950-51], in Bataille, ''Œuvres complètes, 8'', 1976. First version of ''L'Érotisme''.
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* "L'histoire de l'érotisme" [1950-51], in Bataille, ''Œuvres complètes, 8'', 1976. First version of ''L'Érotisme''.
 
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/a04151be0c94dd33ea4f2e9cfa652654#0.01 Breve historia del erotismo]'', trans. Alberto Drazul, Uruguay: Caden, 1976, 69 pp. {{es}}
 
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/a04151be0c94dd33ea4f2e9cfa652654#0.01 Breve historia del erotismo]'', trans. Alberto Drazul, Uruguay: Caden, 1976, 69 pp. {{es}}
  
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** ''La sovranità'', Bologna: Il mulino, 1990, 268 pp. {{it}}
 
** ''La sovranità'', Bologna: Il mulino, 1990, 268 pp. {{it}}
 
** ''Svrchovanost'', trans. Ladislav Šerý, Prague: Hermann & synové, 2000, 298 pp. {{cz}}
 
** ''Svrchovanost'', trans. Ladislav Šerý, Prague: Hermann & synové, 2000, 298 pp. {{cz}}
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** ''Suveranitatea'', trans. Ciprian Mihali, Piteşti-Bucharest: Paralela 45, 2004, 298 pp. {{ro}}
  
 
* ''Manet. Études biographique et critique'', Genève: Skira, 1955.
 
* ''Manet. Études biographique et critique'', Genève: Skira, 1955.
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10782 Manet: Biographical and Critical Study]'', trans. Austryn Wainhouse and James Emmons, Genève: Skira, 1955, 135 pp. {{en}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10782 Manet: Biographical and Critical Study]'', trans. Austryn Wainhouse and James Emmons, Genève: Skira, 1955, 135 pp, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/d70ae65dde7c458d76afd6c4903c6206 ARG]. {{en}}
** ''Manet: biographisch-kritische Studie'', Genève: Skira, 1955, 135 pp. {{de}}
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** ''Manet: biographisch-kritische Studie'', trans. Karl Georg Hemmerich, Genève: Skira, 1955, 135 pp., [https://archive.org/details/georges-bataille-manet-biographischkritische-studie IA], [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/b099a06fca6bf5768b3b4d62977e7890 ARG]. {{de}}
  
 
* ''La Peinture préhistorique. Lascaux, ou la Naissance de l'art'', 1955.
 
* ''La Peinture préhistorique. Lascaux, ou la Naissance de l'art'', 1955.
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[[Image:Bataille_Georges_LErotisme.jpg|thumb|258px|''L'Erotisme'', 1957, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 Log].]]
 
[[Image:Bataille_Georges_LErotisme.jpg|thumb|258px|''L'Erotisme'', 1957, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 Log].]]
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 L'Erotisme]'', Paris: Minuit, 1957.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 L'Erotisme]'', Paris: Minuit, 1957; reprint in ''Œuvres complètes'', vol. 10, Paris: Gallimard, 1974, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/95b653b33e03b947da0e79371df1c2c7 ARG].
 
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 ''El erotismo''], trans. María Luisa Bastos, 1960. {{es}}
 
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 ''El erotismo''], trans. María Luisa Bastos, 1960. {{es}}
 
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 ''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. {{en}}
 
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 ''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. {{en}}
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 ''O erotismo''], trans. Antonio Carlos Viana, Porto Alegre: L & PM, 1987. {{br-pt}}
 
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9233 ''O erotismo''], trans. Antonio Carlos Viana, Porto Alegre: L & PM, 1987. {{br-pt}}
 
** ''Erotismen'', trans. Agnete Øye, Oslo: Pax, 1996, 284 pp. {{no}}
 
** ''Erotismen'', trans. Agnete Øye, Oslo: Pax, 1996, 284 pp. {{no}}
** ''Erotismul'', trans. Dan Petrescu, Bucharest: Nemira, 1997; 2005. [http://www.limbaromana.md/index.php?go=articole&n=1369 Review] {{ro}}
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** ''Erotismul'', trans. Dan Petrescu, Bucharest: Nemira, 1997, 1998; 2005. [http://www.limbaromana.md/index.php?go=articole&n=1369 Review] {{ro}}
 
** ''Erotismus'', trans. Marie Kohoutová and Michal Pacvoň, Prague: Herrmann & synové, 2001, 345 pp. {{cz}}
 
** ''Erotismus'', trans. Marie Kohoutová and Michal Pacvoň, Prague: Herrmann & synové, 2001, 345 pp. {{cz}}
 
** ''Erotyzm'', trans. Maryna Ochab, Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2007, 282 pp. {{pl}}
 
** ''Erotyzm'', trans. Maryna Ochab, Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2007, 282 pp. {{pl}}
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** "Madame Edwarda", trans. Anders Lundberg, in Bataille, ''Ögats historia. Madame Edwarda'', Stockholm: Vertigo, 1997. {{sw}}
 
** "Madame Edwarda", trans. Anders Lundberg, in Bataille, ''Ögats historia. Madame Edwarda'', Stockholm: Vertigo, 1997. {{sw}}
 
** "Madam Edwarda", in Bataille, ''Madam Edwarda. Zemřelý'', trans. Miroslav Drozd, afterw. Ladislav Šerý, Prague: Dauphin, 1998. {{cz}}
 
** "Madam Edwarda", in Bataille, ''Madam Edwarda. Zemřelý'', trans. Miroslav Drozd, afterw. Ladislav Šerý, Prague: Dauphin, 1998. {{cz}}
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** ''Madame Edwarda, Mortul, Istoria ochiului'', trans. Emanoil Marcu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2004. {{ro}}
 
** "Madame Edwarda", in Bataille, ''Historia oka i inne historie'', trans. & intro. Tadeusz Komendant, afterw. Tomasz Swoboda, Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2010. {{pl}}
 
** "Madame Edwarda", in Bataille, ''Historia oka i inne historie'', trans. & intro. Tadeusz Komendant, afterw. Tomasz Swoboda, Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2010. {{pl}}
  
* ''La haine de la poésie'', 1947; repr. as ''L'Impossible: Histoire de rats suivi de Dianus et de L'Orestie'', 1962.
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* ''[[Media:Bataille_Georges_La_Haine_de_la_poesie_1947.pdf|La haine de la poésie]]'', Paris: Minuit, 1947; new ed. as ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/657080a9b4aad88104bba5dbbb95b0f5 L'Impossible: Histoire de rats suivi de Dianus et de L'Orestie]'', 1962.
** ''Das Unmögliche'', trans. Brigitte Weidmann, Munich/Vienna: Hanser, 1987, 125 pp. {{de}}
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** ''[https://archive.org/details/georges-bataille-das-unmogliche Das Unmögliche]'', trans. Brigitte Weidmann, Munich/Vienna: Hanser, 1987, 125 pp.; Frankfurt: Fischer, 1994, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/51b8446b98d019f973bf26dba8a94425 ARG]. {{de}}
 
** ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3FC979191FE1EB084CBEF3025B3086FE The Impossible. A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia]'', trans. Robert Hurley, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1991, 164 pp. {{en}}
 
** ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3FC979191FE1EB084CBEF3025B3086FE The Impossible. A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia]'', trans. Robert Hurley, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1991, 164 pp. {{en}}
  
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** ''L'Abbé C.'', trans. Philip A Facey, London: Marion Boyars, 2001. {{en}}
 
** ''L'Abbé C.'', trans. Philip A Facey, London: Marion Boyars, 2001. {{en}}
  
[[Image:Bataille_Georges_Le_bleu_du_ciel_1957.jpg|thumb|258px|''Le bleu du ciel: roman'', 1957.]]
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[[Image:Bataille_Georges_Le_bleu_du_ciel_1957.jpg|thumb|258px|''Le bleu du ciel: roman'', 1957, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17271 Log].]]
* ''Le bleu du ciel: roman'', Paris: Pauvert, 1957, 215 pp. Written 1935.
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17271 Le bleu du ciel: roman]'', Paris: Pauvert, 1957, 215 pp. Written 1935.
 
** ''L'azzurro del cielo'', Milan: Silva, 1962, 171 pp. {{it}}
 
** ''L'azzurro del cielo'', Milan: Silva, 1962, 171 pp. {{it}}
 
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/fd6000111a3309040ff9fa7ddd8167a1#0.01 Das Blau des Himmels. Roman]'', trans. Sigrid von Massenbach and Hans Naumann, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1967, 178 pp. {{de}}
 
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/fd6000111a3309040ff9fa7ddd8167a1#0.01 Das Blau des Himmels. Roman]'', trans. Sigrid von Massenbach and Hans Naumann, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1967, 178 pp. {{de}}
 
** ''Het blauw van de hemel: roman'', trans. Thérèse Cornips, Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1972, 167 pp. {{nl}}
 
** ''Het blauw van de hemel: roman'', trans. Thérèse Cornips, Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1972, 167 pp. {{nl}}
** ''El azul del cielo: novela'', Barcelona: Ayuso, 1976, 185 pp. {{es}}
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** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17271 El azul del cielo: novela]'', Barcelona: Ayuso, 1976, 185 pp. {{es}}
** ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=86D489C29783191E1F361E9A4E4874A7 Blue of Noon]'', trans. Harry Matthews, New York: Urizen Books, 1978, 126 pp; London: Marion Boyars, 1979. {{en}}
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** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17271 Blue of Noon]'', trans. Harry Matthews, New York: Urizen Books, 1978, 126 pp; London: Marion Boyars, 1979. {{en}}
 
** ''Himlens blå'', trans. Katarina Frostenson, Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1990, 161 pp. {{sw}}
 
** ''Himlens blå'', trans. Katarina Frostenson, Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1990, 161 pp. {{sw}}
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** ''Albastrul cerului'', trans. Natalia Zincenco, Bucharest: Univers, 1996. {{ro}}
 
** ''Het blauw van de hemel: roman'', trans. Walter van der Star, Brussels: Gevaert, 2000, 152 pp. {{nl}}
 
** ''Het blauw van de hemel: roman'', trans. Walter van der Star, Brussels: Gevaert, 2000, 152 pp. {{nl}}
 
** ''El Blau del cel'', trans. Ramon Lladó, Lleida: March, 2009, 154 pp. {{ca}}
 
** ''El Blau del cel'', trans. Ramon Lladó, Lleida: March, 2009, 154 pp. {{ca}}
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===Collected writings===
 
===Collected writings===
* ''Œuvres complètes'', 12 vols., Paris: Gallimard, 1970-88, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=774CEC22CC6C3B8DA96CBB36CAA3FE25 PDF/1], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=814E17EF8D42741B364E6D33B15043B2 PDF/2], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b0659b7c76364305457772def82b6b6a PDF/5], [http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=40d16f883561664d816b62e2386ee3e5 PDF/6], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=EE4108A9BF99667BBD4B5695AFEEA903 PDF/7], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=99D47F58096125908F5DF10057AA8E40 PDF/10], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=de9b17d342261fc3e22d48468819c588 PDF/11], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=7ca1159e096f039b6dbacb76e045824f PDF/12].
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* ''Œuvres complètes'', 12 vols., Paris: Gallimard, 1970-88.
* ''Une liberté souveraine: Textes et entretiens'', ed. Michel Surya, 2004. Articles, book reviews and interviews not included in ''Œuvres complètes''.
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** 1, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=774CEC22CC6C3B8DA96CBB36CAA3FE25 Premiers écrits, 1922–1940: Histoire de l'œil - L'Anus solaire - Sacrifices - Articles]'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/53777e5a334fe04de1c63848 ARG].
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** 2, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=814E17EF8D42741B364E6D33B15043B2 Écrits posthumes, 1922–1940]'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5377822a334fe04de4c63390 ARG].
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** 3, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=e46648351f7380af7c94695eabe5b334 Œuvres littéraires: Madame Edwarda - Le Petit - L'Archangélique - L'Impossible - La Scissiparité - L'Abbé C. - L'être indifférencié n'est rien - Le Bleu du ciel]'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5377848a334fe04de4c63393 ARG].
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** 4, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/1369cab568231b18fa06fc1688ffba57#0.01 Œuvres littéraires posthumes, ''Poèmes - Le Mort - Julie - La Maison brûlée - La Tombe de Louis XXX - Divinus Deus - Ébauches]'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5377867a334fe04de2c6390f ARG].
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** 5, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b0659b7c76364305457772def82b6b6a La Somme athéologique I: L'Expérience intérieure - Méthode de méditation - Post-scriptum 1953 - Le Coupable - L'Alleluiah]'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/532f2f7c334fe0600b50060b ARG].
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** 6, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=40d16f883561664d816b62e2386ee3e5 La Somme athéologique II: Sur Nietzsche - Mémorandum - Annexes]'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/532f30a4334fe0600a50062e ARG].
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** 7, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=EE4108A9BF99667BBD4B5695AFEEA903 L'économie à la mesure de l'univers - La Part maudite - La limite de l'utile (Fragments) - Théorie de la Religion - Conférences 1947-1948 - Annexes]''.
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** 8, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/0e1560ee6d4faf81ed38a838279544f2#0.01 L'Histoire de l'érotisme - Le surréalisme au jour le jour - Conférences 1951-1953 - La Souveraineté - Annexes]'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5384b50e334fe04de2c64142 ARG].
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** 9, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b57e6737dacd0a9b13164eb23719a833 Lascaux, ou La naissance de l’art - Manet - La littérature et le mal - Annexes]'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5384b82d334fe04de2c64144 ARG].
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** 10, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=99D47F58096125908F5DF10057AA8E40 L’érotisme - Le procès de Gilles de Rais - Les larmes d’Eros]''.
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** 11, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=de9b17d342261fc3e22d48468819c588 Articles I, 1944–1949]'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5384ba21334fe04de2c64147 ARG].
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** 12, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=7ca1159e096f039b6dbacb76e045824f Articles II, 1950–1961]''.
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* ''Une liberté souveraine: Textes et entretiens'', ed. Michel Surya, 2004. Articles, book reviews and interviews not included in ''Œuvres complètes'', [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5384baa7334fe04de1c63df4 ARG].
  
 
===Selected writings===
 
===Selected writings===
[[Image:Bataille_Leiris_Griaule_Einstein_Desnos_Encyclopaedia_Acephalica.jpg|thumb|258px|Bataille, et al., ''Encyclopædia Acephalica'', 1995, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13303 Log], [[Media:Bataille_Leiris_Griaule_Einstein_Desnos_et_al_Encyclopaedia_Acephalica.pdf|PDF]].]]
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[[Image:Bataille_Leiris_Griaule_Einstein_Desnos_Encyclopaedia_Acephalica.jpg|thumb|258px|Bataille, et al., ''Encyclopædia Acephalica'', 1995, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13303 Log].]]
 
* ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/e2afa45ee066fb8190eeedee24472a25#0.01 Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939]'', eds. Allan Stoekl, Carl R. Lovitt, and Donald M. Leslie, Jr., University of Minnesota Press, 1985. {{en}}
 
* ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/e2afa45ee066fb8190eeedee24472a25#0.01 Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939]'', eds. Allan Stoekl, Carl R. Lovitt, and Donald M. Leslie, Jr., University of Minnesota Press, 1985. {{en}}
 
* [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=F9049C2E87B7F6881CBF8E1AE3228640 ''October'' 36: "George Bataille. Writings on Laughter, Sacrifice, Nietzsche, Un-Knowing"], trans. Annette Michelson, New York: MIT Press, Spring 1986, 154 pp, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/7c4b897702d24952f6af5c9e41bd3fa2#0.01 ARG]. With texts by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, and Allen S. Weiss. {{en}}
 
* [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=F9049C2E87B7F6881CBF8E1AE3228640 ''October'' 36: "George Bataille. Writings on Laughter, Sacrifice, Nietzsche, Un-Knowing"], trans. Annette Michelson, New York: MIT Press, Spring 1986, 154 pp, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/7c4b897702d24952f6af5c9e41bd3fa2#0.01 ARG]. With texts by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, and Allen S. Weiss. {{en}}
 
* Bataille, et al., ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/95e579e120090731bd5c71c5f561c710#0.01 The College of Sociology, 1937–39]'', trans. Betsy Wing, University of Minnesota Press, 1988. {{en}}
 
* Bataille, et al., ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/95e579e120090731bd5c71c5f561c710#0.01 The College of Sociology, 1937–39]'', trans. Betsy Wing, University of Minnesota Press, 1988. {{en}}
* ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/e2d78458de50b55ee9babd6d9678a662#0.01 The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism]'', ed., trans. & intro. Michael Richardson, London: Verso, 1994, vii+211 pp. {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Bataille_Georges_The_Absence_of_Myth_Writings_on_Surrealism.pdf|The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism]]'', ed., trans. & intro. Michael Richardson, London: Verso, 1994, vii+211 pp, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/e2d78458de50b55ee9babd6d9678a662#0.01 ARG]. {{en}}
 
* Bataille, Leiris, Griaule, Einstein, Desnos, et al., ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13303 Encyclopædia Acephalica]'', ed. & intro. Alastair Brotchie, trans. Iain White, et al., London: Atlas Press, 1995, 176 pp. {{en}}
 
* Bataille, Leiris, Griaule, Einstein, Desnos, et al., ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13303 Encyclopædia Acephalica]'', ed. & intro. Alastair Brotchie, trans. Iain White, et al., London: Atlas Press, 1995, 176 pp. {{en}}
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6118 The Bataille Reader]'', ed. Fred Botting and Scott Wilson, Wiley, 1997, 368 pp. {{en}}
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6118 The Bataille Reader]'', ed. Fred Botting and Scott Wilson, Wiley, 1997, 368 pp. {{en}}
 
* ''Collected Poetry of Georges Bataille'', trans. Mark Spitzer, Dufour, 1998; repr. as ''Collected Poems of Georges Bataille'', 1998. {{en}}
 
* ''Collected Poetry of Georges Bataille'', trans. Mark Spitzer, Dufour, 1998; repr. as ''Collected Poems of Georges Bataille'', 1998. {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Bataille Georges L Apprenti Sorcier du cercle communiste democratique a Acephale 1999.pdf|L'Apprenti Sorcier: du cercle communiste démocratique à Acéphale: textes, lettres et documents (1932-1939)]]'', ed., intro. & notes Marina Galletti, Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1999, 613 pp.
 
* ''Romans et récits'', pref. Denis Hollier, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, 2004.
 
* ''Romans et récits'', pref. Denis Hollier, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, 2004.
 
* ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4F7AFB232C5FAA25F3650D4CBD5C467F 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''. {{en}}
 
* ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4F7AFB232C5FAA25F3650D4CBD5C467F 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''. {{en}}
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9148 Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS]'', eds. Dawn Ades and Simon Baker, London: Hayward Gallery, and MIT Press, 2006, 272 pp.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=18213 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.
 
* ''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. [http://www.zonebooks.org/titles/BATA_CRA.html] {{en}}
 
* ''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. [http://www.zonebooks.org/titles/BATA_CRA.html] {{en}}
 
* ''Divine Filth: Lost Scatology and Erotica'', trans. Mark Spitzer, Solar Books, 2009. A collection of erotic prose and scatological fragments. {{en}}
 
* ''Divine Filth: Lost Scatology and Erotica'', trans. Mark Spitzer, Solar Books, 2009. A collection of erotic prose and scatological fragments. {{en}}
 
* ''Le Souverain'', drawings Vladimir Velickovic, Fata Morgana, 2010, 88 pp.
 
* ''Le Souverain'', drawings Vladimir Velickovic, Fata Morgana, 2010, 88 pp.
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* ''The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acéphale and Lectures to the College of Sociology'', eds. & intro. Marina Galletti and Alastair Brotchie, trans. Natasha Lehrer, John Harmann, and Meyer Barash, London: Atlas Press, 2018, 480 pp. [https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_eclectic&number=19]
  
 
==Correspondence==
 
==Correspondence==
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* ''[[Media:Bataille_Georges_Lettres_a_Roger_Caillois_1935-1959.pdf|Lettres à Roger Caillois: 4 août 1935-4 février 1959]]'', ed. & annot. Jean-Pierre Le Bouler, pref. Francis Marmande, Romillé: Folle avoine, 1987, 163 pp.
 
* with Michel Leiris, ''Échanges et correspondances'', ed. & notes Louis Yvert, Paris: Gallimard, 2004. Contains Leiris's ''À propos de Georges Bataille'' (1988), Bataille's texts on Leiris, and their correspondence, 1924-61.
 
* with Michel Leiris, ''Échanges et correspondances'', ed. & notes Louis Yvert, Paris: Gallimard, 2004. Contains Leiris's ''À propos de Georges Bataille'' (1988), Bataille's texts on Leiris, and their correspondence, 1924-61.
 
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/a27b5810676f5fbf10aa8e68254774e7#0.01 Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris]'', trans. Liz Heron, afterw. Bernard Noël, London and New York: Seagull, 2008, 298 pp. {{en}}
 
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/a27b5810676f5fbf10aa8e68254774e7#0.01 Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris]'', trans. Liz Heron, afterw. Bernard Noël, London and New York: Seagull, 2008, 298 pp. {{en}}
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==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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[[Image:Sollers_Philippe_ed_Bataille.jpg|thumb|258px|''Bataille'', ed. Sollers, 1973, [[Media:Sollers_Philippe_ed_Bataille.pdf|PDF]], [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=16382 Log].]]
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* ''Critique'' 195-196: "Hommage à Georges Bataille", Paris, 1963, 160 pp; facs.repr., Paris: Minuit, 1991. [http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Critique_n%C2%B0_195_196___Hommage_%C3%A0_Georges_Bataille-2298-1-1-0-1.html] {{fr}}
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** Raymond Queneau, [[Media:Queneau Raymond 1963 Premieres Confrontations avec Hegel.pdf|"Premières confrontations avec Hegel"]], pp 694-700.
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* [[Media:L_Arc_32_Georges_Bataille.pdf|''L'Arc'' 32: "Georges Bataille"]], ed. Stéphane Cordier, Aix-en-Provence, 1967, 96 pp. {{fr}}
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* [[Media:L_Arc_44_Bataille.pdf|''L'Arc'' 44: "Bataille"]], ed. Stéphane Cordier, Aix-en-Provence, 1971, 96 pp. {{fr}}
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=16382 Bataille]'', ed. Philippe Sollers, Paris: Union générale d'éditions (10/18), 1973, 318 pp. Conference proceedings. {{fr}}
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* ''Semiotext(e)'' 2(2): "Bataille", ed. Sylvère Lotringer, New York: Semiotext(e), 1976. {{en}}
 
* ''Semiotext(e)'' 2(2): "Bataille", ed. Sylvère Lotringer, New York: Semiotext(e), 1976. {{en}}
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* Denis Hollier, ''La prise de la Concorde'', Paris: Gallimard, 1974.
 
* Denis Hollier, ''La prise de la Concorde'', Paris: Gallimard, 1974.
** ''Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille'', trans. Betsy Wing, MIT Press, 1989, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=53187f7c5c8080de9b4bcdc65d5da94f PDF], [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/53187f7c5c8080de9b4bcdc65d5da94f#0.01 ARG]. {{en}}
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** ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=53187f7c5c8080de9b4bcdc65d5da94f Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille]'', trans. Betsy Wing, MIT Press, 1989, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/53187f7c5c8080de9b4bcdc65d5da94f#0.01 ARG]. {{en}}
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* Bernd Mattheus, ''Georges Bataille. Eine Thanatographie'', 3 vols., Munich: Matthes & Seitz, 1984-95. {{de}}
 
* Bernd Mattheus, ''Georges Bataille. Eine Thanatographie'', 3 vols., Munich: Matthes & Seitz, 1984-95. {{de}}
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* Allan Stoekl, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=239AE981BF717193459AA5B27DB332B8 Politics, Writing, Mutilation: The Cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge]'', 1986. {{en}}
 
* Allan Stoekl, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=239AE981BF717193459AA5B27DB332B8 Politics, Writing, Mutilation: The Cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge]'', 1986. {{en}}
* Michel Leiris, ''À propos de Georges Bataille'', Paris: Fourbis, 1988; repr. in ''Échanges et correspondances'', 2004. Three articles from 1958-67.
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* Michel Leiris, ''À propos de Georges Bataille'', Paris: Fourbis, 1988; repr. in Bataille, ''Échanges et correspondances'', 2004. Three articles from 1958-67.
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* Michel Surya, ''Georges Bataille, la mort à l'œuvre'', Paris: Séguier/Gallimard, 1987; 1992. {{fr}}
 
* Michel Surya, ''Georges Bataille, la mort à l'œuvre'', Paris: Séguier/Gallimard, 1987; 1992. {{fr}}
* Georges Didi-Huberman, ''La ressemblance informe, ou le gai savoir visuel selon Georges Bataille'', Paris: Minuit, 1995 {{fr}}
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* Benjamin Noys, ''Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction'', Pluto Press, 2000, [[Media:Noys_Benjamin_Georges_Bataille_A_Critical_Introduction_2000.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
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* ''Yale French Studies'' 78: "On Bataille", 1990, pp 1-265. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/i347904] {{en}}
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* Denis Hollier, [http://www.jstor.org.sci-hub.tw/stable/779026 "The Use-Value of the Impossible"], trans. Liesl Ollman, ''October'' 60 (Spring 1992), pp 3-24. {{en}}
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* Peter Bürger, ''Das Denken des Herrn: Bataille zwischen Hegel und dem Surrealismus: Essays'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1992, 179 pp. {{de}}
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** ''The Thinking of the Master: Bataille between Hegel and Surrealism'', trans. Richard Block, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2002, 128 pp. {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Boldt-Irons_Leslie_Anne_ed_On_Bataille_Critical_Essays.pdf|On Bataille: Critical Essays]]'', ed., trans. & intro. Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons, Albany: SUNY Press, 1995, 346 pp. {{en}}
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* ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6A92B0A8675A3348B5E0A5671293E655 Georges Bataille après tout]'', ed. Denis Hollier, Paris: Belin, 1995, [https://archive.org/details/denis-hollier-georges-bataille-apres-tout IA],  [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/6a92b0a8675a3348b5e0a5671293e655 ARG]. {{fr}}
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* Georges Didi-Huberman, ''La ressemblance informe, ou le gai savoir visuel selon Georges Bataille'', Paris: Minuit, 1995. {{fr}}
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* ''Critique'' 636: "Weil, Kojève, Bataille", Paris, 2000. [http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Critique_n%C2%B0_636___Weil,_Koj%C3%A8ve,_Bataille-2393-1-1-0-1.html] {{fr}}
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* Benjamin Noys, ''[[Media:Noys_Benjamin_Georges_Bataille_A_Critical_Introduction_2000.pdf|Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction]]'', Pluto Press, 2000. {{en}}
 
* Pascal Louvrier, ''Georges Bataille, la fascination du mal'', Paris: Du Rocher, 2008. {{fr}}
 
* Pascal Louvrier, ''Georges Bataille, la fascination du mal'', Paris: Du Rocher, 2008. {{fr}}
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* Andrew Hussey (ed.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c5856f6c3a0e090c2e0500 The Beast at Heaven's Gate: Georges Bataille and the Art of Transgression]'', Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, 156 pp. Reviews: [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/228351 Moore] (French Studies), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1093/fmls/cqn018 Forum for Modern Language Studies]. {{en}}
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* ''Critique'' 732: "Bergson en bataille", Paris: Minuit, 2008, 96 pp. [http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Critique_n%C2%B0_732___Bergson_en_bataille-2579-1-1-0-1.html] [http://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-2008-5.htm] {{fr}}
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* ''Critique'' 788-789: "Georges Bataille. D'un monde l'autre", Paris: Minuit, 2013, 192 pp. [http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Critique_n%C2%B0_788_789___Georges_Bataille._D_un_monde_l_autre-2820-1-1-0-1.html] [http://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-2013-1.htm] {{fr}}
  
 
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==Documentary==
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Born September 10, 1897(1897-09-10)
Billom, France
Died July 9, 1962(1962-07-09) (aged 64)
Paris, France
Web Aaaaarg, Wikipedia, Academia.edu, Open Library

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 otherwise)

Acéphale, 1936-39, PDFs.

Edited magazines

Books

  • Les Monnaies des grands Mogols, Paris: J. Florange, [1927].
  • L'Anus solaire, illustr. André Masson, Editions de la Galerie Simon, 1931.
    • O Anus solar, trans. Anibal Fernandez, Lisbon: Heina, 1985, 46 pp. (Portuguese)
  • Sacrifices, c1922-40.
  • L'Abjection et les formes misérables, 1934, re-print, Œuvres complètes, vol. II, Paris: Gallimard, 1970.
    • "Abjection and Miserable Forms", trans. Yvonne Shafir,in: More & Less, ed. Sylvere Lotringer, Pasadena, CA: MIT Press, 1993; 1999, ARG. (English)
  • 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; re-print, Œuvres complètes, vol. 5, Paris: Gallimard, 1973, PDF.
    • "La experiencia interior", in Bataille, La experiencia interior. Método de meditación, y Post-scriptum 1953, Taurus, 1984. (Spanish)
    • Inner Experience, trans. Leslie Anne Boldt, SUNY Press, 1988, 209 pp. (English)
    • Doświadczenie wewnętrzne, trans. Oskar Hedemann, intro. Krzysztof Matuszewski, Warsaw: KR, 1998, 296 pp. (Polish)
    • "Vnitřní zkušenost", in Bataille, Vnitřní zkušenost. Metoda meditace, trans. Josef Hrdlička, Prague: Dauphin, 2003. (Czech)
  • 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.
    • Sobre Nietzsche. Voluntad de suerte, trans. Fernando Savater, Madrid: Taurus, 1972; 2nd ed., 1979. (Spanish)
    • O Ničeu volja za srećom, intro. Milorada Belančića, trans. Ana Moralić, Novi Sad: Književna Zajednica Novog Sada, 1988, 195 pp. (Serbian)
    • On Nietzsche, trans. Bruce Boone, Paragon House, 1992. (English)
  • Dirty, Paris: Fontaine, 1945.
  • L'Alleluiah, 1947.
La part maudite, 1949.
  • La part maudite: essai d'économie générale. La consumation, Paris: Minuit, 1949; new ed. as La part maudite précédé de La notion de dépense, intro. Jean Piel, Paris: Minuit, 1967, 283 pp.
    • La parte maledetta. La societá di impresa militare-religiosa, il capitalismo, lo stalinismo. Preceduta da la nozione di depense, Verona: Bertani, 1972, 213 pp. (Italian)
    • La parte maldita. Precedida de La noción de consumo, intro. Jean Piel, trans. Johanna Givanel, Barcelona: Edhasa, 1974, 246 pp. (Spanish)
    • Das theoretische Werk Bd. 1. Die Aufhebung der Ökonomie. Der Begriff der Verausgabung. Der verfemte Teil. Kommunismus und Stalinismus, ed. Gerd Bergfleth, trans. Traugott König and Heinz Abosch, Munich: Rogner und Bernhard, 1975, 413 pp; 2nd ed., exp., Munich: Matthes & Seitz, 1985; 3rd ed., exp., 2001. (German)
    • A parte maldita. Precedida de 'A noção de dispêndio', Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 1975; Autêntica, 2014. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • To katarameno apothema: me eisagōgē, He ennoia tēs dapanēs, trans. Lena Lymperopoulou, Athens: Praxis, 1985, 211 pp. (Greek)
    • La parte maldita. Precedida de La nocion de gasto, trans. Francisco Munoz de Esalona, Barcelona: Icaria, 1987. (Spanish)
    • 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)
    • Den fördömda delen: samt begrebet utgift, trans. Johan Öberg, Stockholm: Brutus Östlings, 1991, 255 pp. (Swedish)
    • Il dispendio, ed. Elena Pulcini, trans. Francesco Serna, Rome: Armando, 1997, 87 pp. (Italian)
    • "Prokletá část", trans. Ladislav Šerý, in Bataille, Prokletá část. Teorie náboženství, Prague: Herrmann & synové, 1998. (Czech)
    • Partea blestemată. Eseu de economie generală, trans. Bogdan Ghiu, Iaşi: Institutul European, 1994, 223 pp; 2nd ed., rev., trans. & intro. Bogdan Ghiu, Bucharest: Art, 2008. (Romanian)
    • Część przeklęta: oraz Ekonomia na miarę wszechświata. Granica użytecznego, trans. Krzysztof Jarosz, Warsaw: KR, 2002, 316 pp. (Polish)
    • A parte maldita: precedido de A noção de despesa, intro. Jean Piel, trans. Miguel Serras Pereira, Lisbon: Fim de Século, 2005, 239 pp. (Portuguese)
  • "L'histoire de l'érotisme" [1950-51], in Bataille, Œuvres complètes, 8, 1976. First version of L'Érotisme.
  • "La souveraineté" [1950s], in Bataille, Œuvres complètes, 8, 1976; repr. as La Souveraineté, Paris: Lignes, 2012, 292 pp. [1]
    • "Die Souveränität", in Bataille, Die psychologische Struktur des Faschismus. Die Souveränität, ed. Elisabeth Lenk, Munich: Matthes & Seitz, 1978. (German)
    • La sovranità, Bologna: Il mulino, 1990, 268 pp. (Italian)
    • Svrchovanost, trans. Ladislav Šerý, Prague: Hermann & synové, 2000, 298 pp. (Czech)
    • Suveranitatea, trans. Ciprian Mihali, Piteşti-Bucharest: Paralela 45, 2004, 298 pp. (Romanian)
  • Manet. Études biographique et critique, Genève: Skira, 1955.
    • Manet: Biographical and Critical Study, trans. Austryn Wainhouse and James Emmons, Genève: Skira, 1955, 135 pp, ARG. (English)
    • Manet: biographisch-kritische Studie, trans. Karl Georg Hemmerich, Genève: Skira, 1955, 135 pp., IA, ARG. (German)
  • La Peinture préhistorique. Lascaux, ou la Naissance de l'art, 1955.
L'Erotisme, 1957, Log.
  • L'Erotisme, Paris: Minuit, 1957; reprint in Œuvres complètes, vol. 10, Paris: Gallimard, 1974, ARG.
    • 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)
    • Erotik, Tübingen: Gehrke et Poertner, 1980. (German)
    • O erotismo, trans. Antonio Carlos Viana, Porto Alegre: L & PM, 1987. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Erotismen, trans. Agnete Øye, Oslo: Pax, 1996, 284 pp. (Norwegian)
    • Erotismul, trans. Dan Petrescu, Bucharest: Nemira, 1997, 1998; 2005. Review (Romanian)
    • Erotismus, trans. Marie Kohoutová and Michal Pacvoň, Prague: Herrmann & synové, 2001, 345 pp. (Czech)
    • Erotyzm, trans. Maryna Ochab, Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2007, 282 pp. (Polish)
La littérature et le mal, 1957.
  • La littérature et le mal, Paris: Gallimard, 1957.
    • Literature and Evil, trans. Alastair Hamilton, Calder & Boyars, 1973. (English)
    • Književnost i zlo, Belgrade: Beogradski izdavačko-grafički zavod, 1977, 212 pp. (Serbian)
    • 'A Literatura e o mal, trans. Suely Bastos, Porto Alegre: L & PM, 1989, 224 pp, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Literatura a zło: Emily Brontë, Baudelaire, Michelet, Blake, Sade, Proust, Kafka, Genet, trans. Maria Wodzyńska-Walicka, forew. Zbigniew Bieńkowski, Kraków: Oficyna Literacka, 1992, 155 pp. (Polish)
    • Litteraturen och det onda, trans. Hans Johansson, Stockholm: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 1996, 172 pp. (Swedish)
    • La literatura y el mal, El Aleph, 2000. (Spanish)
  • Les Larmes d'Éros, 1961.
    • "Die Tränen des Eros", trans. Karin Reese, in Bataille, Die Erotik in der Kunst, Munich: Desch, 1965. (German)
    • As lágrimas de eros, Lisbon: Culturais engrenagem, 1984. (Portuguese)
    • The Tears of Eros, trans. Peter Connor, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1989. [2] (English)
    • Łzy Erosa, trans. Tomasz Swoboda, Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2009, 345 pp. (Polish)
  • Le Procès de Gilles de Rais, 1965.
    • Gilles de Rais: Leben und Prozess eines Kindermörders, Hamburg: Merlin, 1967, 381 pp. (German)
    • The Trial of Gilles de Rais, trans. Richard Robinson, Amok Press, 1991. (English)
  • Théorie de la religion, ed. Thadée Klossowski, Paris: Gallimard, 1973.
    • Theory of Religion, trans. Robert Hurley, Zone Books, 1989. (English)
    • Teoria religii, trans. Krzysztof Matuszewski, Warsaw: KR, 1996, 123 pp. (Polish)
    • Teoria da religião, trans. Sergio Goes de Paula and Viviane de Lamare, São Paulo: Ática, 1993, 95 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • "Teorie náboženství", trans. Anna Irmanovová, in Bataille, Prokletá část. Teorie náboženství, Prague: Herrmann & synové, 1998. (Czech)
    • Teoria de la religion, 1999. (Spanish)

Novels and novellas

  • as Lord Auch, Histoire de l'œil, 1928.
    • "Die Geschichte des Auges", in Bataille, Das obszöne Werk, trans. & afterw. Marion Luckow, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1977. (German)
    • Ögats historia, trans. Peter Ölund, Stockholm: Alba, 1983. (Swedish)
    • Story of the Eye, trans. Joachim Neugroschel, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1987, 104 pp. (English)
    • "Příběh oka", in Bataille, Příběh oka. Matka, trans. Ladislav Šerý, Prague: Reflex, 1992. (Czech)
    • Historia del ojo, trans. Margo Glantz, Mexico D.F., 1994; 2nd ed., 1995. (Spanish)
    • "Ögats historia", trans. Peter Johansson, in Bataille, Ögats historia. Madame Edwarda, Stockholm: Vertigo, 1997. (Swedish)
    • História do olho, São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2003, 135 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • "Historia oka", in Bataille, Historia oka i inne historie, trans. & intro. Tadeusz Komendant, afterw. Tomasz Swoboda, Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2010. (Polish)
    • Η ιστορία του ματιού, Agra, 2009. (Greek)
Pierre Angélique, Madame Edwarda, 1937 [1941].
  • as Pierre Angélique, Madame Edwarda, Solitaire, [1941]; 2nd ed., 1945; 3rd ed., 1956. Antidated 1937.
    • "Madame Edwarda", in Bataille, Das obszöne Werk, trans. & afterw. Marion Luckow, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1977. (German)
    • "Madame Edwarda", in Bataille, My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man, trans. Austryn Wainhouse, London: Marion Boyars, 1989. (English)
    • "Madame Edwarda", trans. Anders Lundberg, in Bataille, Ögats historia. Madame Edwarda, Stockholm: Vertigo, 1997. (Swedish)
    • "Madam Edwarda", in Bataille, Madam Edwarda. Zemřelý, trans. Miroslav Drozd, afterw. Ladislav Šerý, Prague: Dauphin, 1998. (Czech)
    • Madame Edwarda, Mortul, Istoria ochiului, trans. Emanoil Marcu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2004. (Romanian)
    • "Madame Edwarda", in Bataille, Historia oka i inne historie, trans. & intro. Tadeusz Komendant, afterw. Tomasz Swoboda, Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2010. (Polish)
  • L'Abbé C., Paris: Minuit, 1950.
    • Ksiądz C., trans. Krzysztof Jarosz, intro. Pierre Klossowski, ed. Krzysztof Matuszewski, Warsaw: KR, 1998, 178 pp. (Polish)
    • O padre C., ed. & trans. Renato Aguiar, Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 1999, 146 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • L'Abbé C., trans. Philip A Facey, London: Marion Boyars, 2001. (English)
Le bleu du ciel: roman, 1957, Log.
  • 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)
    • Himlens blå, trans. Katarina Frostenson, Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1990, 161 pp. (Swedish)
    • Albastrul cerului, trans. Natalia Zincenco, Bucharest: Univers, 1996. (Romanian)
    • 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)
    • "Błękit nieba", in Bataille, Historia oka i inne historie, trans. & intro. Tadeusz Komendant, afterw. Tomasz Swoboda, Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2010. (Polish)
  • Ma mère, Paris: Pauvert, 1966. Unfinished and published posthumously.
    • "Meine Mutter", in Bataille, Das obszöne Werk, trans. & afterw. Marion Luckow, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1977. (German)
    • "My Mother", in Bataille, My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man, trans. Austryn Wainhouse, London: Marion Boyars, 1989. (English)
    • Moja matka, trans. Bożena Sęk, Warsaw: Wema, 1991, 103 pp. (Polish)
    • "Matka", in Bataille, Příběh oka. Matka, trans. Ladislav Šerý, Prague: Reflex, 1992. (Czech)
    • Η μητέρα μου, Agra, 2001. (Greek)
  • Le Mort, Paris: Pauvert, 1967.
    • "Der Tote", in Bataille, Das obszöne Werk, trans. & afterw. Marion Luckow, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1977. (German)
    • "The Dead Man", in Bataille, My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man, trans. Austryn Wainhouse, London: Marion Boyars, 1989. (English)
    • "Zemřelý", in Bataille, Madam Edwarda. Zemřelý, trans. Miroslav Drozd, afterw. Ladislav Šerý, Prague: Dauphin, 1998. (Czech)
    • Martwy, trans. Sławomir Królak, afterw. Paweł Próchniak, Kraków: Pasaże, 2010. (Polish)

Collected writings

Selected writings

Bataille, et al., Encyclopædia Acephalica, 1995, Log.
  • 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, ARG. (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)
  • L'Apprenti Sorcier: du cercle communiste démocratique à Acéphale: textes, lettres et documents (1932-1939), ed., intro. & notes Marina Galletti, Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1999, 613 pp.
  • 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. [3] (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.
  • The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acéphale and Lectures to the College of Sociology, eds. & intro. Marina Galletti and Alastair Brotchie, trans. Natasha Lehrer, John Harmann, and Meyer Barash, London: Atlas Press, 2018, 480 pp. [4]

Correspondence

  • Lettres à Roger Caillois: 4 août 1935-4 février 1959, ed. & annot. Jean-Pierre Le Bouler, pref. Francis Marmande, Romillé: Folle avoine, 1987, 163 pp.
  • with Michel Leiris, Échanges et correspondances, ed. & notes Louis Yvert, Paris: Gallimard, 2004. Contains Leiris's À propos de Georges Bataille (1988), Bataille's texts on Leiris, and their correspondence, 1924-61.
    • Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris, trans. Liz Heron, afterw. Bernard Noël, London and New York: Seagull, 2008, 298 pp. (English)
    • Intercambios y correspondencias (1924-1982), trans. Silvio Mattoni, Buenos Aires: El cuenco de plata, 2008. (Spanish)

Literature

Bataille, ed. Sollers, 1973, PDF, Log.
  • Bataille, ed. Philippe Sollers, Paris: Union générale d'éditions (10/18), 1973, 318 pp. Conference proceedings. (French)
  • Semiotext(e) 2(2): "Bataille", ed. Sylvère Lotringer, New York: Semiotext(e), 1976. (English)
  • Bernd Mattheus, Georges Bataille. Eine Thanatographie, 3 vols., Munich: Matthes & Seitz, 1984-95. (German)
  • Michel Leiris, À propos de Georges Bataille, Paris: Fourbis, 1988; repr. in Bataille, Échanges et correspondances, 2004. Three articles from 1958-67.
  • Michel Surya, Georges Bataille, la mort à l'œuvre, Paris: Séguier/Gallimard, 1987; 1992. (French)
  • Yale French Studies 78: "On Bataille", 1990, pp 1-265. [6] (English)
  • Peter Bürger, Das Denken des Herrn: Bataille zwischen Hegel und dem Surrealismus: Essays, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1992, 179 pp. (German)
    • The Thinking of the Master: Bataille between Hegel and Surrealism, trans. Richard Block, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2002, 128 pp. (English)
  • Georges Didi-Huberman, La ressemblance informe, ou le gai savoir visuel selon Georges Bataille, Paris: Minuit, 1995. (French)
  • Critique 636: "Weil, Kojève, Bataille", Paris, 2000. [7] (French)
  • Critique 732: "Bergson en bataille", Paris: Minuit, 2008, 96 pp. [8] [9] (French)
  • Critique 788-789: "Georges Bataille. D'un monde l'autre", Paris: Minuit, 2013, 192 pp. [10] [11] (French)

Documentary

See also