Bataille, Story of the Eye
Bataille’s first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. ...
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Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this ...
Continue Reading →Camus, The First Man
The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not ...
Continue Reading →Camus, The sea close by
Part of the Penguin Classics campaign celebrating 100 years of Albert Camus, ‘A Sea Close By’ reveals the writer as a sensual witness of landscapes, ...
Continue Reading →Alciati, A Book of Emblems
Andrea Alciati’s Emblematum Liber was an essential work for every writer, artist and scholar in post-medieval Europe. First published in 1531, this illustrated book was ...
Continue Reading →0More, On Religion
❤️ On Religion 😇 is a book that delves into the cosmos surrounding two meditation pavilions, crafted for a Buddhist community nestled at the foot ...
Continue Reading →Bataille, The Accursed Share: Vol II and III
Georges Bataille considered The Accursed Share, his radical critique of economic theories based on rational categories of need, scarcity, and utility, his most important project. ...
Continue Reading →Bataille, The Accursed Share: Vol I
In this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He ...
Continue Reading →Camus, Exile and the Kingdom
Set in North Africa, Paris, and Brazil, the six stories in this masterful collection reveal probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for ...
Continue Reading →Bataille, Lascaux: Or, the Birth of Art
With photographs by Hans Hinz and an epilogue by Rita Bischof. At a time when the animal and plant world, the ‘wild life’, seem more ...
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