Eroticism (Georges Bataille)
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| - | It was translated as ''Eroticism'' [sic] by [[Mary Dalwood]] and published by [[Marion Boyars]] in [[1962]], and later published by [[City Lights]] under the title ''Erotism: Death and Sensuality'' (1986). It was published as a Penguin modern classic in 2012. | + | It was translated as ''Eroticism'' [sic] by [[Mary Dalwood]] and published by [[Marion Boyars]] in [[1962]], and later published by [[City Lights Bookstore]] under the title ''Erotism: Death and Sensuality'' (1986). It was published as a Penguin modern classic in 2012. |
| ==On the [[Khajuraho]] monuments== | ==On the [[Khajuraho]] monuments== | ||
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"Eroticism ... is assenting to life up to the point of death." [...] --Eroticism, Georges Bataille "That nauseous, rank and heaving matter, frightful to look upon, a ferment of life, teeming with worms, grubs and eggs, is at the bottom of the decisive reactions we call nausea, disgust or repugnance." "...In essence, the domain of eroticism is the domain of violence, of violation... The most violent thing of all for us is death which jerks us out of a tenacious obsession with the lastingness of our discontinuous being. We blench at the thought that the separate individuality within us must be suddenly snuffed out... We cannot imagine the transition from one state to another one basically unlike it without picturing the violence done to the being called into existence through discontinuity. Not only do we find in the uneasy transitions of organisms engaged in reproduction the same basic violence which in physical eroticism leaves us gasping, but we also catch the inner meaning of that violence. What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners -- a violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?" |
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L'Érotisme (1957) is a book by Georges Bataille by Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris. The subject of the book is eroticism and its relation to transgression and the continuity/discontinuity of life. The text is best-known for connecting sex and death.
Translation history
It was translated as Eroticism [sic] by Mary Dalwood and published by Marion Boyars in 1962, and later published by City Lights Bookstore under the title Erotism: Death and Sensuality (1986). It was published as a Penguin modern classic in 2012.
On the Khajuraho monuments
"De nombreux temples de l'Inde nous rappellent solennellement l'obscénité enfouie au fond de notre cœur." (English: "Numerous Indian temples solemnly remind us of the obscenity buried deep in our hearts.", and in a footnote, see Max-Pol Fouchet, L'Art Amoureux des Indes, Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, 1957, 4"
Table of contents from Mary Dalwood's translation
Eroticism in inner experience
The link between taboos and death
Taboos related to reproduction
Affinities between reproduction and death
Transgression
Murder, hunting and war
Murder and sacrifice
From religious sacrifice to eroticism
Sexual plethora and death
Transgression in marriage and in orgy
Christianity
The object of desire : prostitution
Beauty
Kinsey, the underworld and work
De Sade's sovereign man
De Sade and the normal man
The enigma of incest
Mysticism and sensuality
Sanctity, eroticism and solitude
A preface to 'Madame Edwarda'.
See also
