GRUPO PLANETA - THE BLUE OF THE SKY | POCKET EDITION

Synopsis of The Blue of the Sky:

After the publication of three titles by Georges Bataille in The Vertical Smile, it's now the turn of another classic of erotic literature. Bataille wrote The Blue of the Sky in 1935 but, as he confesses in the preface, ignored it for a long time. The Spanish Civil War and the catastrophes that humanity endured for thirty years, in his opinion, emptied the work of its content. It wasn't until 1957 that, on the advice of some friends, the great French writer decided to release it to the public through J.J. Pauvert, his publisher in France.

Despite the luminous title, this work is inspired by the transgression of a prudent morality, in a dangerous quest: the apprehension of death, the "impossible" depths of that blue sky that simultaneously attracts and repels us. London, Paris, Barcelona, ​​paint a topography of perdition, a picture in which Troppman, through drunkenness, sleepless nights, and strange celebrations, approaches that new form of purity, communion with death thanks to the illuminating discovery of the sordid.

It can be said that The Blue of the Sky contains all of Bataille, all the themes that preoccupied him throughout his life: ideologies, death, states of ecstasy, sex... Thirteen years have passed since we began publishing Giorgio Bataille. To date, six works have been published in different collections: The Real Bluebeard (Infimos 35), Eroticism (Marginales 61), History of the Eye, My Mother, Madame Edwarda, followed by The Dead Man (Il sorriso verticale 10, 19, and 25), and Tears of Eros (I 5 Senses 12).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE BLUE OF THE SKY

Georges Bataille was born in Billon, France, in 1897 and died in Malmaison in 1962. A man who liked to work in the shadows, he nevertheless became one of the most innovative and important European thinkers of the interwar period. He founded several journals, including two that made history: Documents and Critica. He wrote essays such as Literature and Evil, Eroticism (Marginales 61), Inner Experience, and The Cursed Part, and, in the field of erotic fiction, extraordinary texts such as The Story of the Eye, My Mother, followed by The Dead Men, Madame Edwarda, and The Blue of the Sky (The Vertical Smile 10, 19, 25, and 44). For him, all creation is a process through which man transcends himself by transgressing all taboos, particularly those related to eroticism and death.