Georges Bataille

Blue of Noon is an erotic novella by Georges Bataille. Although Bataille completed the work in 1935, it was not published until Jean-Jacques Pauvert did so in 1957. Urizen Books published Harry Mathews' English-language translation in 1978. The book deals with both incest and necrophilia.

The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy is a book about economics by the French intellectual Georges Bataille. Written between 1946 and 1949 and collected in volume seven of his complete works, The Accursed Share comprises three volumes: "Consumption", "The History of Eroticism", and "Sovereignty." First …