The manners and evil - George Bataille

Number of pages: 223 Publisher: Dar Satoro Book description: Literature is the essential, otherwise it is nothing. The evil – in its sharp form – expressed by literature, possesses the sublime value, from our point of view. But that perception does not require the absence of ethics, rather it demands what is "above ethics" « hypermorale ». Literature is communication. And communication necessitates sincerity: strict ethics are given in this perspective based on some collusions regarding the knowledge of evil, which establishes the sharp communication.