Critical Essays : Volume 1

Prolific writer produced novels, criticism, poems, economic and political treatises, and philosophical and anthropological essays. He embraced transgressive and erotic subject matter, and founded several journals and literary groups in his lifetime. He edited the journal Documents from 1929-1930, which aimed to push Surrealist ideology, and though he was initially drawn to the Surrealist group, Bataille soon fell out with André Breton..