In Theory : Georges Bataille – “Literature and Evil”

All-purpose theorist Georges Bataille: Christian brothel-goer,  compere to the surrealists, ancestor to the post-modernists and post-structuralists, Nietzche's descendant and Sartre's rival, influential on Michel Foucault as well as on "the two Jacques" (Lacan and Derrida), and an authority on the so-called literature of transgression. After some nudging I thought I would pick up "Literature and Evil," a slim collection of …

More Maruo : Suehiro Maruo – “Yume No Q-Saku”

Suehiro Maruo quotes the French author Jean Genet as saying: "Filth abhors filth." People who are disturbed by dirt are only reacting to something dirty within that is going unacknowledged. Or so rationalizes the eroguro grand-master when explaining his love for dirt, specifically of the scatological kind, in "Yume no Q-Saku," an early collection of odds …