Bataille 1897 - 1962 (65)
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die
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Bataile was born on September 10, 1897, in Billom, central France; his father was blind. He finished high school in Reims and because he had tuberculosis he did not serve in the army. In 1920 he got married and had a child, 2 years later he went to spend some time with the Benedictines in order to become a priest. There he renounced his religious faith and in 1924 he was appointed to the library of Paris. In the period 1926-27 he did psychoanalysis and socialized with the surrealists without joining their movement. In 1928 he published under the pseudonym "Story of the Eye" a subversive love novel that many took as obscene pornography.
For two years (1929-1930) he directed the magazine "DOCUMENTS", in 1931 he published the "Solar Anal". In 1933 he wrote the economic essay "Concept of Expenditure", in 1934 the "Inner Experience" (after his initiation into Eastern philosophical methods), in 1937 "Madame Edward", in 1943 "for Nietzsche", in 1948 the "Theory of religion". In 1950 he wrote the prologue to Justin of the Marquis de Sade, in 1955 he wrote "Prehistoric Painting: Lasko or The Birth of Art", in 1957 "Literature and Evil", in 1961 "Tears of love". At the same time he wrote many articles, studies, essays. In 1962 he died in Paris. In 1966 and 1967 two of his great short stories were published that had not been published during his lifetime: "My Mother" and "The Dead".