Over the past 30 years the writings of Georges Bataille have had a profound influence on French intellectual thought, informing the work of Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes, among others. Against Architecture offers the first serious interpretation of this challenging thinker, spelling out the profoundly original and radical nature of Bataille's work.

Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille (October Books)

Literature & Fiction

Hollier, Denis

History & Criticism

The MIT Press

Absent without Leave: French Literature under the Threat of War

They were not the "Banquet Years," those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature--the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur--and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968. This literary history, the prehistory of postmodernism, is what Denis Hollier recovers in his interlocking studies of the main figures of French literary life before the age of anxiety gave way to the era of existentialist commitment.  Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Roger Caillois, André Malraux, the early Jean-Paul Sartre are the figures Hollier considers, writers torn between politics and the pleasures of the text. They appear here uneasily balancing the influences of the philosopher and the man of action. These studies convey the paradoxical heroism of writers fighting for a world that would extend no rights or privileges to writers, writing for a world in which literature would become a reprehensible frivolity. If the nineteenth century was that of the consecration of the writer, this was the time for their sacrificial death, and Hollier captures the comical pathos of these writers pursuing the ideal of "engagement" through an exercise in dispossession. His work identifies, as none has before, the master plot for literature that was crafted in the 1940s, a plot in which we are still very much entangled.

Harvard University Press

They were not the "Banquet Years" those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature-the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur-and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968. This literary history, the prehistory of postmodernism, is what Denis Hollier recovers in his interlocking studies of the main figures of French literary life before the age of anxiety gave way to the era of existentialist commitment. Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Roger Caillois, Andre Malraux, the early Jean-Paul Sartre are the figures Hollier considers, writers torn between politics and the pleasures of the text. They appear here uneasily balancing the influences of the philosopher and the man of action. These studies convey the paradoxical heroism of writers fighting for a world that would extend no rights or privileges to writers, writing for a world in which literature would become a reprehensible frivolity. If the nineteenth century was that of the consecration of the writer, this was the time for their sacrificial death, and Hollier captures the comical pathos of these writers pursuing the ideal of "engagement" through an exercise in dispossession. His work identifies, as none has before, the master plot for literature that was crafted in the 1940s, a plot in which we are still very much entangled.

The Politics of Prose: Essay on Sartre (Theory & History of Literature) (English and French Edition)

Univ of Minnesota Pr

Politics Of Prose: Essay on Sartre (Volume 35) (Theory and History of Literature)

Univ. of Minnesota Press

New Lower Price Premises: Invested Spaces in Visual Arts, Architecture & Design from France, 1958-1998 brings together more than 100 visual artists and architects working in France over the past 40 years. This catalogue explores the relationship between ideas about space and their physical manifestation in installation, film, video, photography, architecture and design. Its title plays on the two meanings of the term "premises"--postulates or arguments, site or built space--weaving them into a theme that encompasses all of the works reproduced. In addition to more familiar figures such as artists Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Yves Klein and Annette Messager, architects Le Corbusier, Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano, and designer Philippe Starck, Premises introduces a younger generation of French artists and architects, including Absalon, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Patrick Berger, Frederic Boerl, Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal, who had not yet become widely known outside France at the time of publication.

Premises: Invested Spaces in Visual Arts, Architecture & Design from France 1958-1998

Arts & Photography

Lotringer, Sylvère

Andrew, Dudley

Krens, Thomas

Abram, Joseph

Abaizar, Philippe

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Guggenheim Museum

Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents

This work aims to re-invest some of the best-known modern masterpieces by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Alberto Giacometti with some of the explosive vitality of the cultural and intellectual climate in Paris in the late 1920s."

Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and documents

Ades, Dawn

MILLER, CHARLES

Baker, Simon

Hancock, Caroline

Hayward Gallery

Leiris & Co. [paperback] AGNÈS DE LA BEAUMELLE, MARIE-LAURE BERNADAC [Apr 17, 2015] ...

Leiris & Co.

Bernadac, Marie-Laure

La Beaumelle, Agnès de

Gallimard]

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