Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, this is a novel torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors, and is one of the twentieth century's great nihilist works.
| ISBN: | 9780141195544 |
| Publication date: | 7th June 2012 |
| Author: | Georges Bataille |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, this is a novel torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors, and is one of the twentieth century's great nihilist works.
Blue of Noon features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary
Blue of Noon is available in Paperback
Blue of Noon was written by Georges Bataille and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Blue of Noon has 128 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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