The aesthetics of Bataille functions as a downwardgoing in the great chain. Man is seen as bestial and the material is transferred onto the cultural. And what is descendant and isolated is also an estrangement, far away and lower. For Bataille estrangement is the main rhetoric device. In Bataille we find another narrative than in Breton.
Man here develops through isolation and ejection.
Bretons narrative on the other hand can be seen as an extension or a reconstruction of the lifeworld through union. The strange becomes familiarized by a ascending expansion of mans universe. In the theory of Breton fantasy can always be carried out, that's why both parts of the rhetorics can be in praesentia. For Bataille on the contrary the discontinous is in praesentia and thematized while the hidden is in absentia and not wholly within reach and therfore rheme. We are here, but we long somewhere else.