Guilty
By: Georges Bataille ; translated by Bruce Boone ; introduction by Denis Hollier.
Publisher: Lapis Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Venice, Calif
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 161
Work titles: Le coupable.
Description: Guilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship. It takes the form of a diary, recording the earliest days of World War II and the Nazi occupation of France, but this is no ordinary day book: it records the authorʹs journey through a war-torn world without transcendence. Batailleʹs spiritual journey is also an intellectual one, a trip with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Blake, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche as his companions. And it is a school of the flesh wherein eroticism and mysticism are fused in a passionate search for pure immanence. -- from http://www.amazon.com (Jan. 22, 2014).