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Georges Bataille

1897 - 1962

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Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (; French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Bataille has received more than 1,639,786 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Georges Bataille is the 379th most popular writer (down from 321st in 2019), the 443rd most popular biography from France (down from 371st in 2019) and the 66th most popular French Writer.

Georges Bataille is most famous for his philosophy and writings on transgression, which he defines as the deliberate violation of a taboo.

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Notable Works

Manet
1955
Madame Edwarda
1967
La littérature et le mal
1957
Bleu du ciel
1978
Le bleu du ciel
1957
Histoire de l'oeil
1967

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georges Bataille ranks 379 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucy Maud Montgomery, Grazia Deledda, Enheduanna, Theocritus, Arthur de Gobineau, and Julio Cortázar. After him are Sergei Yesenin, Jean Genet, Cornelius Nepos, Elena Ferrante, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, and Mika Waltari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Georges Bataille ranks 13. Before him are Subhas Chandra Bose, Ludwig Erhard, Ivan Konev, Paavo Nurmi, Wilhelm Reich, and Lucky Luciano. After him are Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Louis Aragon, Norbert Elias, Ferenc Szálasi, Soong Mei-ling, and Gordon Allport. Among people deceased in 1962, Georges Bataille ranks 10. Before him are Niels Bohr, Adolf Eichmann, William Faulkner, Karen Blixen, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Lucky Luciano. After him are Yves Klein, Gaston Bachelard, Hans Luther, Auguste Piccard, Arthur Compton, and Vasily Stalin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Bataille ranks 443 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert Campin (1375), Robert Delaunay (1885), Isabella of France (1295), Albert Lebrun (1871), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), and Arthur de Gobineau (1816). After him are Joan I of Navarre (1273), Jean Genet (1910), Elisabeth of France (1602), Hippolyte Taine (1828), Anouk Aimée (1932), and Isabelle Huppert (1953).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Georges Bataille ranks 66. Before him are Ève Curie (1904), André Malraux (1901), Théophile Gautier (1811), Paul Éluard (1895), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), and Arthur de Gobineau (1816). After him are Jean Genet (1910), Gregory of Tours (538), Jacques Prévert (1900), René Guénon (1886), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), and Alfred de Musset (1810).

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