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Georges Bataille
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French writer, essayist, librarian and theorist whose work crossed the boundaries of literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, political economy, religious studies and art history. His writings include novels, erotic fiction, poetry, philosophical essays, art criticism, lectures, diaries and fragmentary meditations. Although frequently described…
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culture · French writer, librarian and theorist (1897–1962) · librarian · writer · draftsperson · philosopher · also Georges Bataille, Pierre Angélique, George Bataille, Joruju Bataiyu, G. Bataiyu, Lord Auch
Born 10 September 1897 · Died 9 July 1962 · Q207359
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Dla nas, bytów nieciągłych, śmierć ma znaczenie ciągłości bytu: rozmnażanie prowadzi do nieciągłości istot, zarazem jednak łączy się ze sprawą ich ciągłości, czyli jest ściśle ze śmiercią związane. Mówiąc o rozmnażaniu i o śmierci, spróbuję ukazać tożsamość ciągłości bytów i śmierci – obie są jednakowo fascynujące, a fascynacja nimi włada erotyzmem.
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And later expanded, became the principal narrative account of Bataille's life and intellectual development
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1969· 1 entry
In a translation by the poet Dario Bellezza, with a preface by Alberto Moravia
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1963· 1 entry
With contributions from Barthes, Blanchot, Foucault, Klossowski, Leiris, Masson, Métraux, Queneau, Philippe Sollers and Wahl
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1962· 2 entries
Died 1962-07-09.
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“Dla nas, bytów nieciągłych, śmierć ma znaczenie ciągłości bytu: rozmnażanie prowadzi do nieciągłości istot, zarazem jednak łączy się ze sprawą ich ciągłości, czyli jest ściśle ze śmiercią związane. Mówiąc o rozmnażaniu i o śmierci, spróbuję ukazać tożsamość ciągłości bytów i śmierci – obie są jednakowo fascynujące, a fascynacja nimi włada erotyzmem.”
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1961· 1 entry
Friends and artists organized a benefit auction at the Hôtel Drouot
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1958· 2 entries
With contributions by Char, Duras, Leiris, Masson, Jean Fautrier, Wahl and others
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And the publication of several major books under his own name brought attention from a younger intellectual generation
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1957· 1 entry
Under the title The Night of Fascination, with a preface by the artist Tarō Okamoto
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1955· 2 entries
Described Édouard Manet as the founder of an impersonal and autonomous modern painting
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Interpreted Paleolithic painting as evidence of a decisive transition
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1953· 1 entry
As A Tale of Satisfied Desire, translated by Austryn Wainhouse under a pseudonym and published by Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press
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1951· 1 entry
And was made a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1952
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1949· 2 entries
Their daughter Julie was born on 1 December 1949, and Bataille and Diane married in 1951.
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Published the first volume of The Accursed Share, extending his earlier theory of expenditure into an account of energy, growth, luxury, war and sacrifice on a planetary scale
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1948· 1 entry
Bataille completed Theory of Religion, although it remained unpublished until 1973
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1946· 2 entries
With a preface by Albert Camus and contributions by Bataille, Blanchot, Jean Cassou, Federico García Lorca, W
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Bataille founded Critique, subtitled a general review of French and foreign publications
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1944· 2 entries
Bataille and Blanchot became involved with a projected series of topical notebooks entitled Actualité
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And developed a limited mutual respect without becoming close friends
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1943· 1 entry
It combined philosophical reflection, confession, poetry, quotation and records of meditation
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1938· 2 entries
Bataille had an intense relationship with Colette Peignot, who wrote under the name Laure
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And 1939 the emphasis of Acéphale and the College shifted increasingly towards mystical practice
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1936· 1 entry
Bataille and Masson founded the journal Acéphale, whose title means "headless"
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1935· 2 entries
Places erotic degradation and political impotence against the rise of fascism
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Bataille and Breton temporarily reconciled to establish Contre-Attaque, a revolutionary anti-fascist union of intellectuals opposed to parliamentary liberalism, nationalism and Stalinism
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1934· 2 entries
And began a relationship with the writer and activist Colette Peignot, who had previously been Souvarine's companion and wrote political articles as Claude Araxe
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And divorced in 1946; Sylvia subsequently married Jacques Lacan
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1928· 1 entry
Bataille published Histoire de l'œil (Story of the Eye) under the pseudonym Lord Auch
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1923· 1 entry
Bataille became close to the ethnologist Alfred Métraux and the Russian émigré philosopher Lev Shestov
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1922· 1 entry
And in 1924 joined the Cabinet des Médailles, where he worked with coins, medals and archaeological collections
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1920· 1 entry
Spent a period of study at the British Museum and stayed briefly at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight
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1918· 1 entry
And was dedicated to the ruined cathedral of his childhood city and to the Catholic writer Léon Bloy
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1914· 1 entry
Although his father was irreligious and his mother was not observant, Bataille converted to Catholicism in August 1914.
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1898· 2 entries
And Bataille was baptized at the parish of Saint-André on 7 August
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The family moved to Reims in 1898, and Bataille was baptized at the parish of Saint-André on 7 August.
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1897· 2 entries
Born 1897-09-10.
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Bataille was born in Billom, in the Auvergne region of central France, on 10 September 1897.
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