{"product_id":"blue-of-noon","title":"Blue of Noon","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe writing is superlative ... daringly imaginative, intended only for those awake and aware of the possibilities of excess - in literature and in life. Along with Cline and Breton, Bataille writes as if he were dropping a bomb; in a fore-flash he creates a world of demented funereal sexuality.? Detroit Free Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is one of Bataille's most overtly political works, exploring the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force and synthesizing the fetishes of violence, power and death that mesmerized an age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this classic of twentieth century eroticism, the reader is taken on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligensia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorges Bataille was born in 1897 and died in 1962. His combination of scholarship and creative genius assured his pre-eminence among his generation of French intellectuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther books by Georges Bataille also published by Marion Boyars are Eroticism, Story of the Eye, Literature and Evil, L'Abbe C, and My Mother, Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Georges Bataille","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46673056596137,"sku":"9780714528502","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780714528502.webp?v=1765503939","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/blue-of-noon","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}