Notes on an Impossible Literature: Bataille’s Blue of Noon

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  • Osvaldo Fontes Filho PUC-SP - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo/São Paulo - SP

Keywords:

Narrativa, Política, Desejo, Impossibilidade, Morte, Georges Bataille, Narrative, Politics, Desire, Impossibility, Death, Georges Bataille.

Abstract

Georges Bataille’s novel Blue of Noon (1935) appraises itself as disposing of a premonitory vision on 30th and 40th political and social convulsions. As a heterocritical narrative, it evokes an alternation of dreams and reality, quotidian events and historical facts,ammounting to comments about revolutionary values of its age. This paper aims to expose some notes on the narrative schemes of Blue of Noon. As a contest between writing and its own impossibility, Bataille’s text shows fiction as the other side of theoretical optimism and reveals literature as the realm of transgressions. Keywords: Narrative. Politics. Desire. Impossibility. Death. Georges Bataille.

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