The Impossible: A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia

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 ques…

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