The Impossible
Douban
ISBN: 9780872862623
author:
[法] 乔治·巴塔耶
translator:
Robert Hurley
publishing house: City Lights Publishers
publication date: 2001
-1
binding: Paperback
price: USD 15.95
number of pages: 188
[法] 乔治·巴塔耶 translator: Robert Hurley
overview
In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.</P>
