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A review by zurvanite
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille
4.0
An interesting look at eroticism, violence, and mystic experience in terms of continuity and discontinuity. Bataille discusses how taboos form and how transgressing these taboos can affirm or deny this aforementioned continuity and discontinuity.
Bataille's prose here was a little unengaging at times, which is unlike him. He also (for better or for worse) has a tendency to spiral around points rather than state them clearly, which I actually enjoy as it makes the whole text feel more fleshed out and leaves some things unsaid for the reader to consider.
Bataille's prose here was a little unengaging at times, which is unlike him. He also (for better or for worse) has a tendency to spiral around points rather than state them clearly, which I actually enjoy as it makes the whole text feel more fleshed out and leaves some things unsaid for the reader to consider.