Impossibility
About This Novel
This book is an important work on poetry by the famous French writer and thinker Georges Bataille (1897-1962). The whole book consists of three texts, namely "The Mouse's Tale", "Dianus" and "Orestes". These texts, which are a mixture of different genres such as diaries, novels, poems, and literary essays, are obscure and difficult to understand, and their meaning is difficult to grasp. Under the surface of erotic and violent narratives, Bataille seems to have discussed his views on poetry around the core concept of "impossibility." He believes that "only the sex of desire and death can allow people to obtain the truth", "only hatred can reach true poetry", and poetry "is not an understanding of self, let alone the experience of some distant possibility". The purpose of poetry is to summon "those unattainable possibilities" and the impossibility through words, so that poetry can have the violence of resistance.
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