Blue of Noon

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by Georges Bataille,

Translated by Harry Mathews

Marion Boyars Publishers

Due/Published June 2002, 155 pages, paper

ISBN 0714530735

Available again (S02)

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Bataille's erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors. One of Bataille's overtly political works, it explores the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force, bringing violence, power and death together in a terrifying unity.