Georges Bataille Story

George Bataille was born in 1897 in Prelodome, France, the son of a blind, paralytic and

syphilitic father who eventually went insane. According to Bataille, he was not a very good

student and was almost expelled from high school in 1913. According to other sources,

he dropped out of school in order to devote himself to Catholicism. It is difficult to

say what the actual facts are because our information about Bataille comes from two