In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry and in poems, Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible.
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And yet we can, and indeed we must respond to something which, not being God, is stronger than every right, that Impossible to which we accede only by forgetting the truth of all these rights.--Georges Bataille Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French intellectual and literary icon who wrote essays, novels and poems exploring philosophical and sociological subjects such as eroticism and surrealism.
Indeed it has every right.
We are never within our rights in preferring seduction to it: truth has rights over us.
Only the useful, the real, have a serious character.
Humanity is faced with a double perspective: in one direction, violent pleasure, horror and death--precisely the perspective of poetry--and in the opposite direction, that of science or the real world of utility.
He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.
The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth.
In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry and in poems, Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible
