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The impossible / Georges Bataille ; translated from the French by Robert Hurley.
Van Pelt Library PQ2603.A695 I4613 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
- Standardized Title:
- Impossible. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 164 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, [1991]
- Summary:
- In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.
- Contents:
- A story of rats
- Dianus
- The oresteia.
- Notes:
- Translation of: L'Impossible.
- ISBN:
- 0872862623
- 9780872862623
- OCLC:
- 24009727
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