Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris

The friendship between Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris would endure for more than thirty years and their correspondence, assembled here for the first time, would continue until the death of Bataille in 1962. As these letters show, their intellectual affinities were extensive and although they followed different trajectories--Leiris spending more and more time in Africa as an ethnologist, while Bataille remained in Paris developing the ideas on the sacred, sacrifice and eroticism for which he is best known--they continued to have a profound influence on each other. Including a number of short essays by each of them on aspects of the other's work, and excerpts on Bataille from Leiris's diaries, this collection of their correspondence throws new light on two of surrealism's most radical dissidents.Bataille, Georges is the author of 'Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris', published 2008 under ISBN 9781905422678 and ISBN 1905422679.