THE QUESTION OF TRANSGRESSION IN SADE AND BATAILLE

Abstract

The presente paper aims to briefly compare the thoughts of french thinkers Georges Bataille and the Marquis de Sade regarding the question of transgression. Thus, we shall make clearer Bataille’s Reading of the Works of De Sade, pointing to proximities and distances between both authors. We will show that Bataille has incorporated almost textually passages and ideias form De Sade’s Works, not always considering their original sense and context. We will proceed by, firstly, analising how the theme is laid in George Bataille’s “Death and Eroticism”, and the how it is presented in certain central Works by De Sade. We will conclude that the main point of contact between both authors, and the main heritage Bataille gets from De Sade, is a peculiar concept of nature.