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Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille
  • Name: Georges Bataille
  • Birthday: 1897-09-10
  • Place of birth: Billom, France
  • Popularity: 2.884
Biography: Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, economics, sociology and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. In the 1920, Bataille began frequenting the circles of Surrealists, he discovered he had an ideological dispute with the views of the influential Andre Breton, and he began calling himself “an enemy from within the movement”. During this period, Georges began taking psychoanalytical treatments which were successful and enabled him to write. He edited and formulated several works on... Read More

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Title Release date
Georges Bataille - À perte de vue   as  Self - Archive recordings 1997-04-30
A Day in the Country   as  Seminarian (uncredited) 1946-05-21