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Synopsis of The Blue Sky:

After the publication of three titles by Georges Bataille in La sonrisa vertical, it is 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 that humanity had to endure for thirty years, he believed, emptied the work of content. It was not until 1957 when, thanks to the advice of some friends, the great French writer decided to make it available to the public through JJ Pauvert, his publisher in France.

Despite the luminosity of the title, this work is inspired by the transgression of a prudent morality, by a dangerous search: the learning of death, the "impossible" depth of that blue sky that attracts and repels us at the same time. London, Paris, Barcelona, ​​draw a topography of perdition, a framework in which Troppman, through drunkenness, sleepless nights and strange celebrations, approaches a new form of purity, communion with death thanks to the illuminating discovery of the sordid.

It can be said that The Blue of Heaven contains all of Bataille, all the themes that have preoccupied him throughout his life: ideologies, death, states of ecstasy, sex... It is now thirteen years since we began publishing Georges 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 (The Vertical Smile 10, 19 and 25) and The Tears of Eros (The 5 Senses 12).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE BLUE 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 magazines, including two that made history: Documents and Critique. He wrote essays such as La littérature et le mal, L'erotismo (Marginales 61), L'expérience intérieure and La part maudite and, in the field of erotic narrative, extraordinary texts such as Historia del ojo (History of the Eye), Mi madre (My Mother) followed by L'muerto (The Dead Man), Madame Edwarda and L'azul del cielo (The Blue of Heaven) (La sonrisa vertical 10, 19, 25 and 44). For him, all creation is a process through which man surpasses himself by transgressing all taboos, particularly those related to eroticism and death.