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BATAILLE Georges (1897-1962). MANUSCRIT autographe, Avant-propos, [1961] |
Estimate4 000 - 5 000 €
BATAILLE Georges (1897-1962). autograph manuscript, Foreword, [1961]| 9 pages in-8.
Complete working manuscript of the Foreword to Les Larmes d'Éros.
Les Larmes d'Éros was published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1961. It is a reflection on art and eroticism, a sketch of the history of painting under the glance of Eros and Thanatos.
The manuscript, in blue pen, is abundantly crossed out and corrected, notably in red pen.
"We come to conceive the absurdity of the relationship between eroticism and morality. We know that the origin is given in the relations of eroticism and the most distant superstitions of religion. But above the historical precision let us never lose sight of this principle: of two things one, or what obsesses us, is in first what the desire, what the burning passion suggests to us| or we have the reasonable concern of an improved future. There is, it seems, a middle way. I can live in the concern of a better future. But I can still reject that future in another world. In a world in which only death has the power to introduce me "... And so on.
And he concludes: " By the violence of the overcoming, I seize, in the disorder of my laughter and my sobs, in the excess of the transports which break me, the similarity of the horror and a voluptuousness which exceeds me, of the final pain and an unbearable joy!"
Attached is an autograph page of layout instructions, for the 2nd part of the book.
Complete working manuscript of the Foreword to Les Larmes d'Éros.
Les Larmes d'Éros was published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1961. It is a reflection on art and eroticism, a sketch of the history of painting under the glance of Eros and Thanatos.
The manuscript, in blue pen, is abundantly crossed out and corrected, notably in red pen.
"We come to conceive the absurdity of the relationship between eroticism and morality. We know that the origin is given in the relations of eroticism and the most distant superstitions of religion. But above the historical precision let us never lose sight of this principle: of two things one, or what obsesses us, is in first what the desire, what the burning passion suggests to us| or we have the reasonable concern of an improved future. There is, it seems, a middle way. I can live in the concern of a better future. But I can still reject that future in another world. In a world in which only death has the power to introduce me "... And so on.
And he concludes: " By the violence of the overcoming, I seize, in the disorder of my laughter and my sobs, in the excess of the transports which break me, the similarity of the horror and a voluptuousness which exceeds me, of the final pain and an unbearable joy!"
Attached is an autograph page of layout instructions, for the 2nd part of the book.