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Summary of The Blue of the Sky:

Following the publication of three titles by Georges Bataille in *The Vertical Smile*, another classic of erotic literature is now being featured. Bataille wrote *The Blue of the Sky* in 1935, but as he confesses in the preface, he ignored it for a long time. The war in Spain and the catastrophes that humanity had to endure for thirty years, in his opinion, had robbed the work of its substance. It was only in 1957, thanks to the advice of some friends, that the great French writer decided to make it available to the public through J.J. Pauvert, his publisher in France.

Despite the brilliance of its title, this work is inspired by the transgression of a prudent morality on a perilous quest: the realization of death, the "impossible" depths of that blue sky which simultaneously attracts and repels us. London, Paris, Barcelona trace a topography of corruption, a framework within which Troppman, through drunkenness, empty nights, and strange feasts, approaches this new form of purity, this communion with death, thanks to the discovery of the illuminator of the filthy.

One could say that in "The Blue of the Sky" all of Bataille is present, all the themes that occupied him throughout his life: ideologies, death, states of ecstasy, sex... It has now been thirteen years since we began publishing Georges Bataille. To date, six works have been released in various collections: The Real Bluebeard (Infimos 35), Erotica (Marginales 61), History of the Eye, My Mother, Madame Edwarda, followed by The Dead Man (The Smile, vertical 10, 19 and 25) and The Tears of Eros (The Five Senses 12).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE BLUE OF THE SKY

Georges Bataille was born in Billon, France, in 1897 and died in Malmaison in 1962. A man who preferred to work in seclusion, he nevertheless became one of the most innovative and important European thinkers of the interwar period. He founded several journals, including two that made history: Documents and Critique. He wrote essays such as "Literature and Evil," "Eroticism" (Marginales 61), "The Interior Experience," and "The Mutilated Part," and in the realm of erotic fiction, exceptional texts such as "History of the Eye," "My Mother," followed by "The Dead," "Mann," "Madame Edwarda," and "The Blue of the Sky" (The Vertical Smile 10, 19, 25, and 44). For him, all of creation is a process in which humanity transcends itself by breaking all taboos, especially those of eroticism and death.