Author(s): Bataille George

Fiction

Set 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 synthesising the fetishes of violence, power and death that mesmerized an age. In this classic of twentieth century eroticism, the reader is taken on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors.