The Dead Man & The Solar Anus
R J Dent’s brand-new modern English translation of Georges Bataille’s The Dead Man and The Solar Anus, is now available from Incunabula.
Contents:
Introduction: Reading the Nudity of Death by Jack Sargeant and R J Dent
The Dead Man
The Solar Anus
Afterword to The Dead Man by Georges Bataille
Illustrated by Alexandria Bryan
The Dead Man (Le Mort), is Georges Bataille’s classic tale of devotion, depravity and damnation. It’s the story of Marie, a woman who, after witnessing the sudden death of her lover Edouard, wanders naked, guilt-ridden and grieving through the night streets of a French town, sinking deeper and deeper into depravity as she seeks to escape the agony of guilt and loss…
The Solar Anus (L’anus solaire) is a short surrealist text, written by Bataille in 1927. It is Bataille’s essay on the sun’s power and energy, focussing on the positive aspects of the sun – (life, light, growth, sight, vision, reflections), and its negative aspects – (death, decay, disasters, fires, impotence, decomposition, aridity). The Solar Anus is a paean to the sun, which brings life to the Earth, and death to those exposed to its unrestrained energies.
Book details:
Title: The Dead Man and The Solar Anus
Author: Georges Bataille
Translator: R J Dent
Photographs: Alexandria Bryan
Introduction: Jack Sargeant and R J Dent
ISBN: 9781445792262
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 106
Publication Date: 12th April 2024
Publisher: Incunabula
Purchase link (Incunabula): The Dead Man/The Solar Anus at Incunabula
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