/lit/ - Literature

Where do I start with this fella?

>>16119862
>confusing non-belief with belief in the opposite

>>15902717
Holy bastailled.

>>15694117
I prefer the anal qualities reading

Why should I read Bataille?

What did he truly believe?

Yes, this is the man who masturbated in front of his mother's corpse while his pregnant wife slept in a neighbouring room, but he is also the author of "The Psychological Structure of Fascism". Yes, this is the man who experienced a kind of ecstasy at London Zoo at the sight of a monkey's arse ("a beautiful boil of red flesh"), but he also analysed the role of utility in social exchange in "The Notion of Expenditure". And yes, this is the man who was obsessed by some horrific photographs (reproduced in the book) of the Chinese torture of a hundred pieces, convinced that the young man being cut up alive was in a state of religious ecstasy ("hideous, crazed, lined with blood, as beautiful as a wasp"), but he also wrote "The Problem of the State".

Where should I start with Georges Bataille? I've read excerpts of Story of the Eye for a class, but that's it.

I'm sure you've seen my work and don't want it to end… probably thinking I just want you to stick that fake cock in your mouth and suck it, but… I want you to do more than that. I want you to do more than suck it, not that you really have much chance to do so since that cock is basically your only sex toy, but…. I want you to cum… again. If you're lucky enough to have my cock buried in your mouth this whole time, I want you to put yourself in my hand and cum on it, wetting that fake cock and screaming like a madman while you shoot my cum in your mouth. That was the only way I could think of.

>highly original philosopher
>wrote several excellent novels
>great poet and art theoretician on the side
>founded an exoteric and an esoteric group with his writer friends

have you read bataille yet?

I heard somewhere that after reading Heidegger, Bataille excitedly came to the conclusion that philosophy and fiction had merged to form one branch of literature.
Other philosophers who agree with this?

I heard somewhere that after reading Heidegger, Bataille was excited to conclude that philosophy had become more or less a branch of fiction.
Other philosophers who agree with this?