When Jose Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998, the Mayor of Lisbon placed billboards throughout the city congratulating him. It was the consecration of a Portuguese, an internationally acclaimed figure of the words, and a controversial thinker. The man who came from the country, a mere mechanic, and who published (more…)
Prima facie, there are two Georges Batailles: one the writer of fiction, one the philosopher. Yet there is a persistent effect in Bataille of an overlapping, of an entanglement, concerning these distinctions. As Foucault asked in his text »What is an Author?«, where does the concept of the author’s oeuvre begin and end - should a mundane account of Nietzsche’s grocery lists be added to Nietzsche’s collected works?
