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Paperback: 271 pages
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (20 Jun 1985)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0816612838
ISBN-13: 978-0816612833
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm

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Im so impresed with this mans work I am obsessed. He is a rare breed of intelligence. He has a piece in this called 'Mouth" which refers tothe position our heads take well being thrown back in a scream as that of an extension to our spines, inother words that we assume an animal architecture to our bones in the most extreme pains. Batailles constant opinions detailed here in wonderful totaly controlled short pieces , is for me, the only truly awful reading I have ever done. A music piece I often play also has this effect. It is genuis to have the power of horror in works not involving the 'supernatural". I am in awe of this odd,dead man.

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