L'homologue: Bataille et la récriture de soi

Abstract

It has often been said that Georges Bataille, in his fictional work, experimented with notions such as excess, loss and heterogeneity, notions which are at the core of his philosophical work. A closer look at two of his main narratives, Histoire de l'oeil (1928) and Le Bleu du ciel (1935), allows us to see parallels and repetitive structures that would hint at another tendency at work in his writing: a tendency towards homogenization of the narrative components concerned, in sharp contrast to the forces of heterogeneity.