Translated by Robert Hurley. City Lights Books (paperback, 2001)
Publisher Marketing: In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry and in poems, Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Teresa of Ávila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.
