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André Breton, often alleged to have called Bataille an “excremental philosopher,” regarded the author of such classics as The Story of the Eye, On Nietzche and The Accursed Shared as a “sick person” suffering from « psychasthenia » and a « déficit conscient à forme généralisatrice », reduced to expressing himself in a vocabulary of the “befouled, senile, rancid, … Continue reading →

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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?…we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us” // Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollack, 27 January 1904
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