Synopsis of The Blue of the Sky:

After the publication, in The Vertical Smile, of three titles by Georges Bataille, it is now the turn of another classic of erotic literature. 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, according to him, emptied the work of content. It was not until 1957 when, thanks to the advice of some friends, the great French writer decided to deliver it to the public through JJ Pauvert, his publisher in France.

Despite the brightness of the title, this work is inspired by the transgression of a prudent morality, in a dangerous quest: the learning of death, the "impossible" depth of that blue sky that attracts and repels us at the same time. London, Paris, Barcelona, ​​draw a topography of perdition, a picture in which Troppman, through drunkenness, sleepless nights and strange celebrations, approaches that new form of purity, communion with death thanks to the illuminating discovery of the sordid.

It can be said that in The Blue of the Sky all of Bataille is present, all the themes that have preoccupied him throughout his life: ideologies, death, states of ecstasy, sex... Thirteen years have now passed since we began publishing Giorgio Bataille. To date, six works have seen the light in different collections: The Real Bluebeard (Infimos 35), Eroticism (Marginales 61), History of the Eye, My Mother, Madame Edwarda followed by The Dead Man (The Vertical Smile 10, 19 and 25) and Tears of Eros (The 5 Senses 12).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF BLUE SKY

Georges Bataille was born in Billon, France, in 1897 and died in Malmaison in 1962. A man who liked to work in the shadows, he nevertheless became one of the most innovative and important European thinkers of the interwar period. He founded several magazines, including two that made history: Documents and Critica. He wrote essays such as La littérature et le mal, Erotismo (Marginales 61), L'expérience intérieure and La part maudite and, in the field of erotic narrative, extraordinary texts, such as Storia dell'occhio, Mia madre followed by Les mortuaire hommes, Madame Edwarda and L'azure du ciel (The vertical smile 10, 19, 25 and 44). For him, all creation is a process through which man surpasses himself by transgressing all taboos, especially those related to eroticism and death.