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Bataille discusses the works of eight authors in terms of their depiction of evil in their literature. Authors discussed are William Blake, Marquis de Sade, Emily Bronte, Kafka, Baudelaire, Michelet, Proust and Genet.
"In this collection of essays, first published in France in 1957, Georges Bataille explores the value of evil as expressed in literature. 'Literature is not innocent, ' Bataille writes in his preface. 'It is guilty and should admit itself so.' It is only by acknowledging its com…
