by Georges Bataille · Rowohlt Tb. · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783499128936
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«Das obszöne Werk» is a volume of erotic stories by Georges Bataille, published by Rowohlt Tb. in paperback (237 pages, in German).
It brings together five narratives: «Die Geschichte des Auges», «Madame Edwarda», «Meine Mutter», «Der Kleine» and «Der Tote». For Bataille, eroticism is a tragic and transgressive experience, linked to horror, the forbidden and death, far from conventional pornography.
Rororo edition 12893; translation and epilogue by Marion Luckow. This German edition appeared in October 1990.
For readers of twentieth-century French literature, surrealism and eroticism as a philosophical theme.
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. His work would prove influential on subsequent schools of philosophy and social theory, including post-structuralism.
