/lit/ - Literature

Have you already read the Bible, Hesiod, Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud? Do you want to step over several steps at once?

All you need to know about him is that when his mother died he masturbated in front of her corpse while his pregnant wife was sleeping nearby.

I encourage you to take the suggestion made in the sticky to heart and learn to use a search engine.

>>11197613
I am familiar with most

>>11197631
Or we can have a thread on Bataille

>>11197596

depends what you are interested in, his usual themes follow:

erotism, death, sacrifice, Nietzsche, fascism, surrealism and transgression.

He wrote fiction which was pornographic, religious and erotic all in one. He also wrote a series of 'documents' which are kind of philosophical/sociological/ritualistic meditations of themes like 'the big toe' and 'base materialism'.

He is worth reading but it is worth considering what you want to get out of him in order to encourage a practical experience of Bataille, as the deal is 'it is better to drink the wine and get drunk than just look at the bottle'.

>>11197596
don't read him dude, eroticism is a bad road
for realz tho
go read some murakami or something
you don't want to take the bataille pill
don't fuck with sade, sacher-masoch, marx, deleuze, freud, or nietzsche either
just read some fucking murakami or some shit
not even kafka, don't even fuck with kafka

>>11197628
Hot as fuck

>>11197628
He was violating the woman to which he could say ‘I am the night’. Too bad no one slit his throat too.

didn't he get cucked by Lacan?

I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met who could appreciate George Bataille, standing at a Swedish festival, discussing Story of the Eye

Anyone has an epub of his book My Mother?

>>11197596
L'anus de Solar

His literature is mediocre and super edgy.

His writings about philosophy,death and religion are some of the most profound things I have ever read.

>>11197628
wait really
what the fuck
burning all my bataille as we speak

>>11199268
you thought he just wrote about being a filthy degenerate just to be trendy?

>>11199276
isn't that the french manner?

>>11199288
most of them turn out to be actual degenerates, though i can understand that Bataille kind of goes a bit further than others

>>11198988
same. a girl introduced me to Bataille and i fell for her. smart chick. great lay.

>>11198988
The past is a grotesque animal, anon

>>11199460
cringe

>>11197628
Source, what the fuck, how did this even happen

>>11197628
He also wanted to be a Catholic priest.

>>11197628
sublime as fuck, the peak of human experience.

>>11198934
Je suis la nuit, pute!

>>11198280
lol terrible advice

>>11199125
have you checked libgen?

>>11198959
Yeah but literally and figuratively.

>>11198280
>not even kafka, don't even fuck with kafka

ok you lost me

>>11198988
but no matter where we are, we're always touching by underground wires
*synth solo

>>11197613
uhmm you forgot stirner sweetie

>>11197613
most of those names are irrelevant for Bataille. you missed the most important influences too: Sade and Mauss.

>>11198280
I thought this was a great comment haha

>>11198280
lmao best

>>11197628
Anime as fuck.

>>11198988
Teach me your ways senpai

>>11199125
you can literally find it on slsk

>>11198988
>>11198988
How and why would someone start discussing Story of the Eye at a festival?

>>11202480
Kevin is just weird like that.

Didn't Lacan fuck his wife?

>>11202494
Estranged wife, so Lacan got the sloppy seconds and didn't cuck Bataille

>>11197628
I often have a similar fantasy of fucking my mother's corpse. I don't remember anything of her for I was only three when she died, but there's plenty of pictures of us together I masturbate over frequently.

>>11197628
based

>>11202898
kys homie

>>11204376
One day senpai

>>11197596
The guy who made Nick Land.
Everything.

I've always felt lilke he was the evil twin of Barthes.

Anyway OP, you gotta understad early 20th century phenomenology (Mauss, Merleau-Ponty, Bergson), Nietzsche and maybe some anthropology. His book about literature and evil is great in that it will help you with his outlook on authors like Sade and Blake, which are kinda recurent in his work.

what am i in for /lit/?

>>11205485
Bergson and Mauss are not phenomenology.

>>11205332
This. Nick Land owes him everything.

>>11197596
This man, in my country he is everything.

>>11208559

LET ME SMELL YO DICK!

>On the fourth day, at Gibraltar, the Englishman purchased a yacht, and we set sail towards new adventures with a crew of Negroes

>ywn know what those new lewd adventures were

>>11209579
I always thought that part was just a joke

>>11207159
Indeed. Surprised he doesn't get more attention here based on that alone.

bump

don't have a fetish but still found the urine scenes in Story of the Eye arousing

anyone else? Or have I just learned i've got a kink

>>11212444
You were supposed to be in utter disgust otherwise you didn't get the full experience.

Is that flowchart for him still around?

>>11199694
Most offensive thing he's ever done desu

>>11212444
I was quite disturbed and disgusted by them at first reading, but later when I came back to it I admitted to myself that I find it all very arousing.

>>11209579
Don't let /tv/ hear about this

>>11197596
Was his work "On Nietzsche" any good? I just downloaded it but I am not sure if I should waste my time. I am quite well versed in Nietzsche's work so it might be cool to read some analysis, especially from someone who supposedly influence Land to the degree Bataille did

>>11212829
I'm not that far into it but I am enjoying it. It's probably the first post-war interpretation of Nietzsche that tries to break away from "nazi nietzsche". I'd suggest at least reading the introductory pages to see if you are interested.

>>11212845
Sounds good bro, thanks

>>11212806
Why not?

>>11198280
Actually though

Georges Bataille is art thot territory, and if you're going to gush about him, you might as well stuck on your fucking Arctic Monkeys AM album, you high trousered "mmmm, the symbolism is sooo deep and sexy," insipidly swigging your red wine fucking cunts. Violate me! Violate me! Oh, it's just sooooo fucking sublime! What about tradition, monsieur? Tradition! Sacre bleu! Tradition is my whore of a mother whose filthy carcass I violate in the grotesquerie of my mind! Oui! Oui!

>>11214159
You can't write worth half a fuck. Nigger.

>>11214177
But, monsieur, I can fuck a worthless half wit nigger eg your mother. Don't worry, though, sweetie - your "bae" Alex Turner will be alright. ;)

>>11199136
same here

>>11214189
I had to google that name to find out who he is.

Do you know that the reason you hate these people is because you're a second rate version of them?

Hurts, don't it?

>>11212829
it is not his best work. it is more a diary or journal that he writes while he awaits the end of the war in some village. he ruminates about nietsche while being in this unusual situation. it doesn't push your intellectual abilities, it goes more into the direction of poetry.

>"Oh of course I love Bataille! He is one of my favourites along with Proust, Sade, Rimbaud, Foucault, Nietzsche, Deleuze, Kafka, Gramsci, Novalis, the list goes on!" said every art thot ever

>>11214249
>Tfw no Landian Art Hoe Gf to read Bataille and the other authors listed with me.
Why even live?

>>11214249
would pee on and ejaculate on face

>>11214228
Yes, it hurts, monsieur, but the pain... it is good. It is a boiling in the sensorium of my mind... Oh, monsieur - I feel dizzy with life. It excites me. Pain, please, when I am elbow deep in your mother's asshole with three sweaty buck negroes a gibbering primitive audience who furiously masturbate themselves across your mother's spectral face in the limerence of our consummation of the thing called life -- our, monsieur, at tha moment, pleasure and pain, they are one, and the versions of us all blur together into a flickering infinity of rapture like the bird whose tittering is the roar of a lion. Oui, monsieur, and as I defecate and smear the filth of my hotly burning brown across across the scarlet lips of your mother, and will repeat the words of her beloved son to me "Hurts, don't it?" and, monsieur, I will say oui, oui, a thousand times oui, but in summary Georges Bataille is still a faggot and so are you although I suspect you haven't even any familiarity and you are just some wandering mongoloid on the look out for the love your mother squandered sucking greasy cocks.

>>11214249
Literally what's wrong with art thots? A lot better than woman who gush over Harry Potter and GoT. The love of my life was a philosophy thot who was a hard leftist even by German university standards.

>>11214330
Why even include the last sentence, it only makes us question your judgement.

Bump

Why did he abandon his father? He seemed like a bad person.

>>11214159
>stop being interested in the erotic it hurts my puritan feelings

>>11216266
Sometimes fathers can be pretty shit anon. That's just a guess on my part.

>>11212785
>>11212757
wtf? for real? why? i wasn't aroused but they give into each other fully, completely devoted to their senses, why would it be disgusting? isn't this how the entire book works?

>>11214159
this sounds like something alex turner would say
but dumber

>>11217528
It must take a lot to shock you.

>>11217528
Bataille never wanted people to actually accept him. He was seeking rejection

>>11217808
How embarrassing that you try to be offensive without comprehension of what you are saying, little boy. The reference to the Arctic Monkeys and Alex Turner isn't because he says things like that. It's because art thots who like George also like Alex Turner. In fact, he has never said anything like that. Very, very pitiful effort. Did you think you could just pluck something out of the ether and it would make sense as an insult? Fucking try harder, you lame-o.

>>11219678
If the same people who enjoy Batalle also like the Arctic Monkeys then there is a conextion and overlap whether you like it or not.

>>11219649
This

>>11219678
somehow now an even dumber version of something alex turner would say
heavy amounts of projection there
this is for you buddy:
https://harkla.co/blogs/special-needs/autism-tantrums-meltdown-strategies

PLEASE GOD SOMEONE ITT FINANCE MY MOVIE OF STORY OF THE EYE

>>11219737
>>11221419
Heh, I'd feel embarrassed for you if you weren't too stupid to even understand why I felt embarrassed for you, so just cool off and ease into a half ironical posture, you silly little boys. Drag down the dialogue with an absolute dearth of anything meaningful, but it does mean something, mother - it meant more than you ever did with your booze breath - because I'm getting a response! I'm alive! Even though it's meaningless, even though nothing I say has meaning - I'm getting a response! I'm a something and not a nothing! Absolutely pitiful. I really do feel embarrassed for you. Please, use your second hand cliches, your third rate memes - it's all you have, all you are. Repetition, repetition. It's self assertion with no self to assert. Embarrassing, like I said.

>>11199512
and then you see
how completely wrong
you can be

>>11216266
there was a war. His father was blind and constantly in pain, what put a burden on Bataille and his mother

>>11221459
how would you rate your latest record in the context of the previous 5 LPs, mr. turner?

i found the story of the eye to be just a kind of lark. like a john waters film or something. or 120 days of sodom. it was entertaining but it wasn't amazing really.

>>11221601
And so they left him to the nazis? Fuck that, he should have mounted a MG on the house and stood ground.

>>11201587
this

bataille's most important influence is sade

>>11218930
nothing really ever shocked me much. i wouldn't even call myself "desensitized" or anything -i wouldn't watch gore/torture footage- at least in that it isn't a type of progression. maybe a period if anything. ever since i saw bits of/read about salo as a barely-sexual teen not much stood out afterwards.

i haven't read the major transgressive works yet, but i find it amusing that story of the eye would be one, because it's not too violent. i mean, for something that would be at the very top. i'm always amazed at how seemingly (and this could be out of my own ignorance) uncovered ground there is in the limits of violence. i haven't read de sade yet, but even then, i can imagine there's ground for 'improvement' at least in terms of what's happened to the world since he died. i've tried to get more into peter sotos work, as it seems he is as close as a contemporary to sade as there is. i've heard his sound collages and have read some of the stuff that's available online, but sadly what seems to be his most interesting material is still locked in the realms of physical media - far away from were i could grab it.

i welcomed the egg thing very much though.
>>11219649
that's very interesting. it does beg the question - why didn't he go further? surely he was acquaintanced with work that was much more violent than his?

>>11223289
He didn't go further because he was writing what was familiar to his own experiences.

>>11197628
based

>>11214159
Art thots only know Story of the Eye because Of Montreal and le edgy sex book. Ask them about economies of expenditure or his theology and they'll stare at you deer-eyed.

>>11214249
art hoes like rupi kaur and whatever meme feminist author is popular this week lol. you're thinking of humanities grad school thots

>>11223357
that's also very interesting. the real deal. i will look into his life.

>>11197628
Based

>>11214306
cringe....

>>11225062
Doesn't the Story of the Eye have a segment where he explains where the material came from? His father's pissing bowl, blind eyes and mother's mental illness etc

>>11223588
Thats who art hoes are/were originally because it because mainstream

>>11225887
That's why I don't understand why it's considered erotically titalating. Everything regarding sex is bent into something deeply depressing and pessimistic

>>11221907
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