Bataille's Wound First edition

Bataille's Wound is a fictional presentation of the thought of a central modern French thinker and novelist, showing him as radical teacher and mentor. George Bataille was a highly controversial writer associated with the Surrealist movement and -- in writing often considered by turns pornographic and brilliant -- concerned with moral transgression and the authenticity of inner experience. Greene uses quotation, paraphrase, and the recreation of Bataille's celebrated style to further the spirit of that work.