Georges Bataille: Blue of Noon (1957–) [FR, EN, ES]

“Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors. One of Bataille’s overtly political works, it explores the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force, bringing violence, power and death together in a terrifying unity. Written in 1935.”

Publisher Pauvert, Paris, 1957
215 pages

English edition
Translated by Harry Matthews
Publisher Marion Boyars, London, 1979
This edition Paladin Books, 1988
ISBN 0586086242
155 pages

Review: Kirkus (1979).
Commentary: David Fieni (2003).

WorldCat (EN)
Wikipedia (EN)

Le bleu du ciel (French, 1957/1971)
Blue of Noon (English, trans. Harry Matthews, 1979, HTML, PDF)
El azul del cielo (Spanish, n.d.)

William Burroughs: The Dead Star (1969)

Originally appeared in a different form in Jeff Nuttall’s My Own Mag printed in the UK.

Publisher Jan Jacob Merman / Nova Broadcast Press, San Francisco, 1969
Nova Broadcast series, 5
single folded sheet
via Reality Studio

Commentary: Jed Birmingham (Reality Studio 2015).

PDF (3 MB)

Dragutin J. Ilić: A Million Years After (1889/2016) [Serbian, English]

Dragutin J. Ilić (1858, Belgrade – 1926, Belgrade), the son of poet Jova Ilić, and the older brother of poet Vojislav Ilić, wrote poems, short stories, travelogues, critiques, and thirteen theatre plays. One of them, A Million Years After (1889), is one of the earliest science fiction plays to be written.

In it, the last two members of the old human species spend their last days on Earth, being persecuted by a new species for which they are no more than scientific material. The new species forms the “Spirit-world” and knows no feelings, emotions or passion. The work thematises the encounters with extraterrestrial civilizations, space travel and planetary colonisation.

The author and his work had been ignored and virtually forgotten until the mid-1980s. In 1988, Sava Damianov prepared a facsimile edition of Posle milijon godina [A Million Years After], and in 1995, the play was premiered at the National Theatre in Belgrade, directed by Saša Latinović. In 2008, the digital edition of the play appeared online. This translation is the result of a workshop organized in 2014.

Originally published as После милијон година in the journal Јавор, 1889.

Translated by Marko Đurišić, et al.
Edited by Zorica Đergović-Joksimović
With an Introduction by Bojan Jović
Publisher Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade, and University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, 2016
Open access
ISBN 9788660653521
67 pages

Commentary: Zoran Živković (Serbian, 1990), Nemanja Radulović (Serbian, 2007).

Publisher (IKUM)
Publisher (FF UNS)

После милијон година (Serbian, 1889/1988/2008, HTML)
A Million Years After (English, 2016, PDF, PDF)