André Breton - Georges Bataille polemic
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| - | Breton was obviously the driving force behind [[surrealism]], and he ran the movement in a dictatorial style, even expelling several of its members. Several of these ex-members started adhering to [[Georges Bataille]]'s subversive "[[Bataillean]]" surrealism and the latter's journal ''[[Documents (journal)|Documents]]''. | + | [[André Breton]] was the driving force behind [[surrealism]] and he ran the movement in a [[dictatorial]] style, even expelling several of its members in the [[The Second Manifesto of Surrealism]] in 1929. Some of these 'surrealist heretics' started contributing to [[Georges Bataille]]'s journal ''[[Documents (magazine)|Documents]]''. |
| + | ==Breton calling Bataille an "excrement-philosopher"== | ||
| + | Most sources state that Breton called Bataille an "excrement-philosopher" (philosophe-excrément) in the [[Second Surrealist Manifesto]], but in reality these words are nowhere to be found in that text. In the words of Breton, Bataille is presented as a "sick person" who suffers from a "déficit conscient à forme généralisatrice", a sufferer of "[[psychasthenia]]" who expresses himself with delight in a vocabulary of the "befouled, senile, rancid, sordid, lewd [and] doddering" ("souillé, sénile, rance, sordide, égrillard, gâteux"): | ||
| - | Breton calls Bataille an "[[excrement-philosopher]]" (philosophe-excrément) in the [[Second Surrealist Manifesto]]. | + | :Il est à remarquer que M. [[Georges Bataille|Bataille]] fait un abus délirant des adjectifs : souillé, sénile, rance, sordide, égrillard, gâteux, et que ces mots, loin de lui servir à décrier un état de choses insupportable, sont ceux par lesquels s’exprime le plus lyriquement sa [[délectation]]. |
| + | ==Georges Bataille as "wishes only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted"== | ||
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| + | In his [[Second Surrealist Manifesto]] of 1929 [[André Breton]] derided [[Georges Bataille]] as "[[(professing) to wish only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted]]." | ||
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| + | :"M. Bataille fait profession de ne vouloir considérer au monde que ce qu’il y a de plus vil, de plus décourageant et de plus corrompu". | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *English translation ''[[Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography]] | ||
| + | *[[(professing) to wish only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted]] | ||
| + | *[[Le lion châtré]], (The castrated lion, 1929), a polemic by Georges Bataille against André Breton, published in the pamphlet [[Un cadavre]]. | ||
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André Breton was the driving force behind surrealism and he ran the movement in a dictatorial style, even expelling several of its members in the The Second Manifesto of Surrealism in 1929. Some of these 'surrealist heretics' started contributing to Georges Bataille's journal Documents.
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Breton calling Bataille an "excrement-philosopher"
Most sources state that Breton called Bataille an "excrement-philosopher" (philosophe-excrément) in the Second Surrealist Manifesto, but in reality these words are nowhere to be found in that text. In the words of Breton, Bataille is presented as a "sick person" who suffers from a "déficit conscient à forme généralisatrice", a sufferer of "psychasthenia" who expresses himself with delight in a vocabulary of the "befouled, senile, rancid, sordid, lewd [and] doddering" ("souillé, sénile, rance, sordide, égrillard, gâteux"):
- Il est à remarquer que M. Bataille fait un abus délirant des adjectifs : souillé, sénile, rance, sordide, égrillard, gâteux, et que ces mots, loin de lui servir à décrier un état de choses insupportable, sont ceux par lesquels s’exprime le plus lyriquement sa délectation.
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Georges Bataille as "wishes only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted"
In his Second Surrealist Manifesto of 1929 André Breton derided Georges Bataille as "(professing) to wish only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted."
- "M. Bataille fait profession de ne vouloir considérer au monde que ce qu’il y a de plus vil, de plus décourageant et de plus corrompu".
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See also
- English translation Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography
- (professing) to wish only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted
- Le lion châtré, (The castrated lion, 1929), a polemic by Georges Bataille against André Breton, published in the pamphlet Un cadavre.
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