Literature and evil
Subtitle: essays
By: by Georges Bataille ; translated by Alastair Hamilton.
Publisher: M. Boyars
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Evil in literature.; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
Work titles: Littérature et le mal.
Description: "In this collection of essays, first published in France in 1957, Georges Bataille explores the value of evil as expressed in literature. 'Literature is not innocent,' Bataille writes in his preface. 'It is guilty and should admit itself so.' It is only by acknowledging its complicity in the knowledge of Evil that literature can communicate fully. This idea is explored through a series of remarkable studies on the work of eight outstanding authors; Emily Bronte, Baudelaire, Blake, Michelet, Kafka, Proust, Genet and de Sade."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Translation of: La Littérature et le mal.

Reprint. Originally published: London : Calder and Boyars, 1973 (Signature series)

Includes bibliographies.

Cf. Bentley, G.E.  Blake books, 1132

Bentley, G.E.  Blake books, Suppl., p. 361