Visions of Excess (anthology of Georges Bataille translations)  

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"Bataille had translated some medieval nonsense poems for La Révolution surréaliste in 1926."--Visions of Excess (1985)

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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939 (1985) is an anthology of translations of Georges Bataille texts into English.

It features "The Use Value of D.A.F. de Sade," "The Solar Anus," "The Big Toe" and "The Practice of Joy Before Death."

Table of contents

Introduction Allan Stoekl Ix I (1927-1930) [Dream] 3 The Solar Anus 5 The Language of Flowers 10 Materialism 15 Eye 17 The Big Toe 20 The ‘‘Lugubrious Game’’ 24 Formless 31 The ‘‘Old Mole’’ and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist 32 Base Materialism and Gnosticism 45 The Deviations of Nature 53 Rotten Sun 57 Mouth 59 Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh 61 The Jesuve 73 The Pineal Eye 79 The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade 91 II (1932-1935) The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic 105 The Notion of Expenditure 116 Sacrifices 130 The Psychological Structure of Fascism 137 Popular Front in the Street 161 III (1936-1939) The Labyrinth 171 The Sacred Conspiracy 178 Nietzsche and the Fascists 182 Propositions 197 Nietzschean Chronicle 202 The Obelisk 213 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 223 The Practice of Joy before Death 235 The Sacred 240 The College of Sociology 246 A Commentary on the Texts 257 Index 267

References

Allan Stoekl, Carl R. Lovitt, and Donald M. Leslie, Jr., 1985, University of Minnesota Press.

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