Blue Of Noon

Author: BATAILLE GEORGES

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  • : $24.95 AUD
  • : 9780141195544
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : April 2012
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  • : July 2012
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  • : BATAILLE GEORGES
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Barcode 9780141195544
9780141195544

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Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, this is a novel torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors, and is one of the twentieth century's great nihilist works.