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Synopsis of The Blue of the Sky:
Following the publication of three titles by Georges Bataille in La Sonnenvertikel, it's now the turn of another classic of erotic literature. Bataille wrote The Blue of Heaven in 1935, but, as he confesses in the preface, he neglected it for a long time. The war in Spain and the catastrophes humanity had endured for thirty years, he believed, had emptied the work of content. It wasn't until 1957, thanks to the advice of friends, that the great French writer decided to make it available to the public through JJ Pauvert, his publisher in France.
Despite the luminosity of its title, this work is inspired by the transgression of prudent morality, by a dangerous quest: the apprenticeship of death, the "impossible" depth of that blue sky that simultaneously attracts and repels us. London, Paris, Barcelona, draw a topography of perdition, a framework in which Troppman, through drunkenness, sleepless nights, and strange celebrations, moves closer to that new form of purity, communion with death thanks to the illuminating discovery of the sordid.
It could be said that The Blue of Heaven contains all of Bataille, all the themes that preoccupied him throughout his life: ideologies, death, states of ecstasy, sex... It's been thirteen years since we started publishing Georges Bataille. To date, six works have seen the light of day in various collections: The Real Bluebeard (Infimos 35), Eroticism (Marginales 61), Story of the Eye, My Mother, Madame Edwarda, followed by The Dead Man (La sonrisa vertical 10, 19, and 25), and The Tears of Eros (Les 5 sessens 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 Critique. He wrote essays such as Literature and Evil, Eroticism (Marginals 61), Inner Experience, and The Maudite Part, and, in the field of erotic fiction, extraordinary texts such as History of the Eye, My Mother, followed by The Dead Man, Madame Edwarda, and The Blue of Heaven (La Sonnenverturm 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.
