caa a22 4500 606172386 CHVBK 20210128100728.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-014-0265-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-014-0265-6 Amaral Genevieve Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA aut " leur anachronisme devient flagrant”: Georges Bataille, aristocracy, and writing in the interwar period [Elektronische Daten] [Genevieve Amaral] This paper analyzes the critical role of aristocracy in Georges Bataille's 1928 short novel, Story of the Eye. It begins by examining several of his interwar articles, highlighting the centrality of figures like the Marquis de Sade, medieval knights, and Nietzsche's noble masters in Bataille's critiques of bourgeois capitalism, nationalism, and fascism. The paper goes on to demonstrate that aristocratic elements introduce these same critiques into Story of the Eye. Considering manuscript variants as well as the first published edition of the book, the paper recovers allusions to contemporary socio-political issues of interest to Bataille at the time, including the conditions for proletarian revolution and the rising pressures of far-right ideologies in France and across Europe. Finally, it addresses the distinction between Bataille's explicitly political writings and his literary texts, arguing that the ironic and tragic representation of aristocracy in Bataille's early fictional work helps him create a writing practice that engages in socio-political critique while avoiding some of the polemics and pitfalls of interwar intellectual discourse. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2014 Aristocracy nationallicence Georges Bataille nationallicence Histoire de l'oeil nationallicence Interwar literature nationallicence Politics nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 129-144 0324-4652 42:1<129 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0265-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0265-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Amaral Genevieve Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 129-144 0324-4652 42:1<129 2015 42 11059