Abstract
The fact that Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille knew each other during the 1930s has raised a certain amount of interest and not a few eyebrows.1 Benjamin, a habitue of the National Library in Paris, made the acquaintance of Bataille, who worked there as a librarian. Even more intriguing is the claim that Benjamin attended meetings of the College de Sociologie and the Acephale, the intellectuals' cabals that Bataille formed and directed during the interwar period. (It is even said that sometimes he was accompanied by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, though there is evidence to the contrary.) The most poignant
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