Madame Edwarda By Georges Bataille: Being in Common Immoderation / Madame Edwarda De Georges Bataille: L’Être En Commune Démesure

• Authors: Wafa Ghorbel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article aims to clarify the notion of community such as it is perceived by the singularly modern outlook of Georges Bataille, especially in it’s illustration in his story Madame Edwarda. The absence or loss of community seems to represent the very condition of its existence. The lovers in MadameEdwarda simultaneously illustrate the birth as well as the death of such an unusual kind of community. While offering one’s self to the other in a sacrificial attempt to surpass oneself, each of them conveys to the other a sense of shared immoderation, and goes exceptionally beyond the completeness of a homogeneous enclosure in and on oneself. However, at the very moment when it seems to succeed, community is lost, and the being returns to its initial loneliness, which seems to have never been surpassed.

Keywords

EN

community; communication; immoderation; negativity; eroticism; loss; outof- self; sacrifice

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 37-48

Dates

published

2013-01-01

online

2013-01-30

Contributors

author

Wafa Ghorbel

• L’Institut Supérieur des Études Appliquées en Humanités de Gafsa Université de Gafsa, Tunisia

References

• Bataille, G., L’Alleluiah, OEuvres complètes V : La Somme athéologique 1. Paris: Gallimard, 1973.
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• Bataille, G., La Littérature et le mal, OEuvres complètes IX. Paris: Gallimard, 1979.
• Bataille, G., Madame Edwarda, OEuvres complètes III, OEuvres littéraires. Paris: Gallimard, 1971.
• Bataille, G., Méthode de méditation, OEuvres complètes : La Somme athéologique 1. Paris: Gallimard, 1973.
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• Nancy, J.-L., La Communauté désoeuvrée. Paris: Christian Bourgeois éditeur, 1986, réédition 2004.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10317-012-0013-2