ISBN |
9780141195544 (paperback) |
Name |
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 author. |
Title |
Blue of noon / Georges Bataille ; translated by Harry Mathews ; with an introduction by Will Self. |
Published |
London : Penguin, 2012. |
©1979. |
Description |
xii, 105 pages. ; 20 cm. |
Notes |
Originally published in French as Le bleu du ciel, 1957. |
This translation originally published: New York: Urizen Books, 1978; London: Marion Boyers, 1979. |
Summary |
Classics. Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, "Blue of Noon" is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, this is a novel torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors, and is one of the twentieth century's great nihilist works. |
Language note |
Translated from the French. |
Subjects |
Fascism -- Europe -- Fiction |
France -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
Genre |
Psychological fiction |
Other Names |
Matthews, Harry translator |
Self, Will author of introduction, etc. |
Series |
Penguin modern classics |
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