The dismembered community
Subtitle: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the remains of Laure
By: Milo Sweedler.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780874130522
Subjects: Bataille, Georges, -- 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation; Blanchot, Maurice -- Criticism and interpretation; Leiris, Michel, -- 1901-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation; Laure -- Criticism and interpretation; French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Community in literature
Description: This book examines the intersecting communitarian endeavors of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Colette Peignot, known post-humously as Laure. Through detailed analysis of a series of interlocking texts that the four authors wrote on, for, and to one another on such topics as love, friendship, and fraternity, it explores these authors' theoretical elaborations of community, their actual communities, and the relation between the two.--from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.