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Original title
  
L'anus solaire

Publication date
  
1931

Author
  
Georges Bataille

OCLC
  
8937274

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Language
  
French

Originally published
  
1931

Illustrator
  
André Masson

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Publisher
  
Editions de la Galerie Simon

Similar
  
Georges Bataille books, Other books

The Solar Anus (French: L'anus solaire) is a short Surrealist text by the French writer Georges Bataille, written in 1927 and published with drawings by André Masson four years later.

Albeit elliptically, its aphorisms refer to decay, death, vegetation, natural disasters, impotence, frustration, ennui and excrement. It makes ironic reference to the sun, which, although it brings life to the Earth, can also result in death from its unrestrained energies. Moreover, the anus may be seen as a symbol of the inevitability of residual waste due to its role in excretion.

References

The Solar Anus Wikipedia