Blue of noon
Bataille, Georges, Lord, 1897-19622012
Book
Classics. Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, "Blue of Noon" is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, this is a novel torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors, and is one of the twentieth century's great nihilist works.
Main title:
Blue of noon / Georges Bataille ; translated by Harry Mathews ; with an introduction by Will Self.
Author:
Bataille, Georges, Lord, 1897-1962, authorMatthews, Harry, translatorSelf, Will, author of introduction, etc
Work:
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2012.©1979.
Collation:
xii, 105 pages. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in French as Le bleu du ciel, 1957.This translation originally published: New York: Urizen Books, 1978; London: Marion Boyers, 1979.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780141195544 (paperback)
Dewey class:
843.912
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
640549
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | Fiction | BATA | On loan - Due: 24 Jul 2026 |
| North Melbourne Library | Fiction | BATA | Available |