André Breton - Georges Bataille polemic
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| *English translation ''[[Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography]] | *English translation ''[[Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography]] | ||
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| - | *[[Le lion châtré]], (The castrated lion, 1929) is a polemic by Georges Bataille against André Breton, published in the pamphlet Un cadavre. | + | *[[Le lion châtré]], (The castrated lion, 1929), a polemic by Georges Bataille against André Breton, published in the pamphlet Un cadavre. |
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André Breton, being the driving force behind surrealism, he ran the movement in a dictatorial style, even expelling several of its members in the Second Surrealist Manifesto in 1929. Several of these 'surrealist heretics' started contrituting to Georges Bataille's journal Documents.
Most sources state that Breton called Bataille an "excrement-philosopher" (philosophe-excrément) in the Second Surrealist Manifesto, but in reality these words are nowhere to be found in that text. In the words of Breton, Bataille is presented as a "sick person" who suffers from a « déficit conscient à forme généralisatrice », a sufferer of « psychasthenia » who moves expresse himself with delight in a vocabulary of the "befouled, senile, rancid, sordid, lewd [and] doddering" ("souillé, sénile, rance, sordide, égrillard, gâteux").
See also
- English translation Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography
- (professing) to wish only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted
- Le lion châtré, (The castrated lion, 1929), a polemic by Georges Bataille against André Breton, published in the pamphlet Un cadavre.
