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The Tears of Eros

Paperback • 1989 • English

The Tears of Eros

By Georges Bataille

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Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims, Bataille reveals their common obsession: death. This essay, illustrated with artwork from every era, was developed out of ideas explored in Erotism: Death and Sexuality and Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the...Show more

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ISBN

9780872862227

Publisher

City Lights Books

Published year

1989

Language

English

Original title

The Tears of Eros

Format

Paperback

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