Very glad that you didn't shortened the Bataille related stuff. I actually think that you really flourish in these longer form reviews. More nuance and depth, dig it a lot. It's great to see someone so passionate about something I'm fascinated with for so long as well. I crave for a german translation of the biography. In my knowledge there's only the french original and the english one you are reviewing. Maybe I'll pick up the english one even though I won't grasp a lot that way. Better than nothing, I suppose.

I love your reviews so much! I'm never bored listening to them! Keep up the good work 👍

There is a French black metal band that is highly influenced by Bataille's work (Inner Experience, The Solar Anus, and Theory of Religion) on one record of theirs, released in 2007 (Fas - Ite Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum). They are called Deathspell Omega, try to check that record out!

Congratulations on the two year anniversary of this (gem)channel. And A Very Happy Diwali!

Have you ever read Blanchot? 'Thomas L'Obscur' is trance-inducing, a real masterclass. The rumor has always been that Blanchot himself showed the writings of Bataille to Derrida.

I have to say that the longer videos are more enjoyable than the shorter ones. Perhaps there can be two versions, one a sort of edited highlights for those who prefer to focus on the main points and the full deal for those who like to sit with a subject for a while. Whatever, always look forward to your reflections. You probably don't need any recommendations but I read The Eye of Purgatory by Jacques Spitz earlier in the year, someone I wasn't familiar with but now really hope that more of his works are translated from the original french. Really great novella, full of cosmic dread and decay :D

Better Than Food: Book Review you got me interested in books I never heard before. Thank you and Pinocchio by Carlo

yeah, as far as I know, The Accursed Share is available on amazon. In two volumes, I think. Odd that you mention Sartre as not being very fun-loving; just finished a book for a class on Existentialism called 'At the Existentialist Cafe' that pretty much painted him and de Beauvoir (as well as Camus for the time they were friends) as being a bit on the wild side. It was a pretty good book, focusing a lot on phenomenology. A bit dry at times, but a nice ride nonetheless.

The author mentioned at 5:38 is called Pierre Guyotat. (I only mention this because I had trouble spelling the name.)

When you have a bio of a talented writer you want a biographer like this one. The section about the shroud was beautifully written.

At 34:20, Mr. Sargent mentions some authors: Breton, Hegel, ..., Nietzsche and Dostojevskij. However, I simply cannot hear the name he says between “Hegel” and “Nietzsche”. The auto-generated subtitles says “for her Albin” which is obviously nonsense. Can anyone tell me who he is talking about?

Awesome channel and really well-focused reviews. Some of my favourite authors are there: Ligotti, Pessoa, Danielewski, Bataille, Foucault...references to Lovecraft, Peake, Kubin, Borges, Yourcenair would be welcome!!! Cheers from Italy :)

Hey! Great video! Can you please write the name of the guy who wrote the introduction of eroticism of your edition? I'll try to find it online since we don't have this edition in Brazil. Thanks!

Story of the Eye is in the post! Now I'm going to have to dig out a copy of this for afterwards. Going to be a fun week!

Deathspell Omega's song Diabolus Absconditus has all of its lyrics taken from Bataille's Madame Edwarda. Great track from a great band, who of which take and expand upon many of the truths Bataille expressed-plus much more-throughout their discography.

Maybe you know already but there's a book about Acephale which I haven't read too much of yet as I want to finish "Visions of Excess" first and then read the biography along with "Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction" by Benjamin Noys. I did however, read the introduction and it describes how the author went to great lengths to acquire a lot of internal documents and other information from its former members. I think it also has texts from the journal and lectures from the College of Sociology. Oh and there's also Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts, which I think is out of print but of which I can send you the pdf if you'd like.

Whenever I read Story Of The Eye I can't help but see a younger Fairuza Balk playing the character of Simone. However I'm sure it would hurt the integrity of the film having an American actress play Simone. But if Fairuza spoke French and she was maybe 10-20 years younger I'd say she would be the perfect Simone at least according to my vision.

Picked up this thin paperback in a Little Library called " The Impossible". The prose was so unique and confrontational and luminous, he had me from the first sentence.

Story of the eye changed me too. I love and hate it at the same time. Can't wait to read this biography. P.s: heve you read Giacomo Leopardi , hes great too.

I love this video!

How's the filming production going?

hey, new sub here. umm...you can list down the books you named or at least the authors? it's hard to guess the spelling of french authors by the pronunciation. I'm rather new to literary fiction

Have you ever read the Mishima biography Persona?

that's one of your funniest intros yet i think.

I am surprised you haven't done a review of _Satantango_ yet. You seem like a guy who'd dig it.

Great Stuff!

"Latent-qazi-necrophiliac-incest desires? I don't think it's quite that simple." Brilliant.

I find OP annoying but compelled to stay around and watch his videos so I’m subscribed.

I read Story of the Eye today - wow. I don't think I've ever read something so perverted or compelling in my entire life. While I can't yet say that I have been shaken to the core by it as you were, it certainly inspires a spectacular interest in Bataille's work. It's a shame that so many will write it off as classless pornography written by a drunken French aristocrat, because what was clear to me after daring to read past the first chapter was that Bataille was on to something extraordinarily profound. I will be reading this biography, rest assured.

I got a nice copy of Penguin edition of 'Eroticism' off e-bay, many thanks for the recommendations on all the books mentioned btw.

i haven't read any bataille yet but from the review you did of the story of the eye and this video his ideas remind me of cronenberg movie crash .that erotisim and fatality are two inseprable and very real elements of the body .

there is a biography in german of bataille by bernd mattheus encompassing three volumnes titled thanatographie, you should check it out.

Michel de Montaigne. would be perfect for this channel.

That story about Bataille's obsession with the 'ecstasy' displayed by the man being tortured and executed by 1,000 cuts reminds me of the philosophy of meaning through sadism displayed by the character of Jonathan Randall in the tv series Outlander - it's not a 'great' series, but it does have some very interesting themes at play within the context of a historic, romantic war drama, in particular the scene where Randall rapes the lead male character and basically tries to ruin him sexually by forcing him to think of his beloved wife during the rape. There is also an interesting scene where he continues torturing this same man because that 'ecstasy' that Bataille was fascinated by also appears to Randall in the moment. I always find it interesting where high art and average art intersect: even though Outlander is a guilty pleasure kind of show, if you like Bataille I think you might find a lot of the themes that surround the character's motivations to be quite interesting. It isn't True Detective, but I'd still say it's a good option for easy viewing without being without substance.

are those pictures of the "death of a thousand cuts" the same pictures Horacio is shown by the Chinese guy early on in Hopscotch?

Gonna read some Bataille now, I've been meaning to for a while now. Have you ever thought about reading Petersburg by Andrei Bely?

do you recommend reading the biography of bataille first and then after that his own work?

The idea of system and excess sounds kind of like how Thomas Pynchon uses entropy in Gravitys Rainbow, does any one know if Pynchon was inspired by Bataille ?

Better than the Stuart Kendell biography?

Do you think the shocking aspect of Bataille´s thought may itself be transgressed by the appropriate form of analyzing it? It seems like a point that insists on not being looked from beyond the location of disruption, and shock.

Puedes hacer un review de Tropico de Capricornio y Tropico de Cancer de Henry Miller?

Lang T'che is also a lit album by Naked City. Worth a listen.

Dunno if it’s translated in English but Michel Surya published a few years ago a new book about Bataille (Sainteté de Bataille, which you can translate « Holiness Of Bataille » www.lyber-eclat.net/livres/saintete-de-bataille/). It’s kind of a 'second thoughts' addition to his (impressive) biography, specially focused on Acephale and the dogmaless religion Bataille intented to set up in the 1930’s.

Love me some Bataille

Please review: Some Thing Black by Jacques Roubaud

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I really need to pick this up and look into the world of Bataille!

So Bataille stands between laughter and horror before the mortality of the human which for him is best represented by the aware vulnerability of his liquescent eyeball which he proceeds to pluck out and crush into goop and he says that there is nothing to say, all the while having a firm grip on his swollen dick with one hand while the other hand is shoved into his bleeding anus at the moment that he shoots his seed into the fathomless void and cries out meaningless syllables that contain the mystery of everything... then death swallows him into the nothing and he is never seen or heard from again but we remember him with awe-filled reverence...

Have you read Bulgakov?

Omg I’m in love with you haha

There is a Macedonian band, The Hip that is also influenced by the philosophy of George Bataille among others. Pay specific attention to "Spit Out the God", their song from the second album where the music, the lyrics and the video juxtapose aspects of Bataille's son metaphor, the poetics of Surrealism and the cinema of Nouvelle Vague kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rcemo9d7tbWck58.html

HEH THAT ACEFAL TSHIRT

There is no obsession of anything easily obtained.

DON'T WAIST MY TIME WITH IDEALISM!

Hey man please explore some Indian literature if you haven't already; Tagore, Badal Sarkar, Arundhuti Roy etc. Please do... :-)

Was that like a challenge to her for being that much of an ill-suited mother, or, was it the case that she was a wonderful mother? I am asking from a Lacanian point of view.

16:56 hahaha

Bataille sounds a lot like me

Sometimes bad people think interesting things.

The funniest yes but in history

Can dudes hair get any sassier???

so good with words, im attracted to ur face and voice, wish to take u to lunch, maybe help withmovie. im in san francisco

I disagree with your point on how humans are social creatures... This would prolly have been a better DM than comments post...

10:19 pretty sure the photo was of a woman.

Watching the way you react on these two videos, I still can't figure out what you like so much about Bataille. But he's published in la Pléiade, so he must be important... (so they say). From my point of view: Yes, pornography should be banned, less so because it destroys eroticism and more so because sexual liberation is a form a political control.

This is what happens when people become too interested in people. Sad narrow world.

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Please don't shout out of nowhere in your videos - it triggers some of us. Good content though!

So edgy

Wheres the film cliff