Propositions 3; La Haine de La Poésie [The Hatred of Poetry]
- Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1947
Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1947. First French Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's pale orange wraps titled in black. 180pp.; [2]. Lightly sunned to spine panel, with a little wear and soiling to extremities; internally clean and fresh, pages unifomrly toned due to cheap paper stock. A very good, neat copy.
A smart French language copy of Bataille's expansive resistence to the concept of poetry as a fixed and closed form, and the development of his argument that "it is not poetry, but the hatred of poetry that can take us to the limits of the possible.
A smart French language copy of Bataille's expansive resistence to the concept of poetry as a fixed and closed form, and the development of his argument that "it is not poetry, but the hatred of poetry that can take us to the limits of the possible.