Blue of Noon
Georges Bataille
Penguin UK

<p>Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors. One of Bataille's overtly political works, it explores the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force, bringing violence, power and death together in a terrifying unity. </p>
<p>"Georges Bataille is one of the most important writers of the century"'Michel Foucault</p>