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BATAILLE (Georges). *L’Archangélique*.
See original version (French)
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BATAILLE (Georges). *L’Archangélique*.
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
BATAILLE (Georges). *L’Archangélique*. Paris, Messages, 1944. 16mo, paperback. First edition.
A print run of 113 non-commercial copies; this is one of the 100 with an ‘Auvergne’ inscription.
A copy belonging to Jean Paulhan.
The usual foxing, spine stained.
*L’Archangélique* contains some of Bataille’s most powerful poems: ‘I find you in the star / I find you in death / you are the frost on my lips / you smell of a dead woman / your breasts open like beer / and laugh at me from beyond / your two long thighs are delirious / your belly is bare like a death rattle / you are as beautiful as fear / you are as mad as a dead woman”.
See original version (French)
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About the sale
Eros & Thanatos – Selected extracts from the L-D S library
Auction location
Auction time
10/07/2026 at 2:00 PM
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