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The Solar Anus (French: L'anus solaire) is a short surrealist text by the French writer Georges Bataille, written in 1927 and published with drawings by André Masson in 1931. Albeit elliptically, its aphorisms refer to decay, death, vegetation, natural disasters, impotence, frustration, ennui and excrement.
Bataille explores the parodic and circular nature of life, love, and coitus in this provocative text. He links the sun, the earth, the moon, and the sea with sexual movements and images, and challenges the boundaries of language and meaning.
Sep 10, 2014 · A provocative and erotic exploration of the sun, the earth, and sexuality, published in 1931 by the French philosopher and writer Georges Bataille. The text mixes metaphysics, metaphors, and images of coitus, decay, and volcanoes in a style that challenges logic and convention.
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Apr 18, 2024 · The Solar Anus (L’anus solaire) is a short surrealist text, written by Bataille in 1927. It is Bataille’s essay on the sun’s power and energy, focussing on the positive aspects of the sun – (life, light, growth, sight, vision, reflections), and its negative aspects – (death, decay, disasters, fires, impotence, decomposition, aridity).
The solar annulus is the intact anus of her body at eighteen years to which nothing sufficiently blinding can be compared except the sun, even though the anus is night. [from Georges Bataille "Visions of Excess Selected Writings, 1927-1939"]
3.92. 587 ratings74 reviews. The Solar Anus is a short Surrealist text written by the French writer and philosopher Georges Bataille. Albeit elliptically, its aphorisms refer to decay, death, vegetation, natural disasters, impotence, frustration, ennui and excrement.
