G. Bataille, "L'apprenti sorcier"

Notes on Georges Bataille, “L’apprenti sorcier” (1938)

“L’apprenti sorcier,” Œuvres complétes, vol. I, ed. Denis Hollier (Paris: Gallimard, 1970); originally published in Nouvelle Revue Franaise 298 (July 1938): 5Ð54.

English translations:: (1) “The SorcererÕs Apprentice,” trans. Allan Stoekl, Visions of Excess, ed. Allan Stoekl (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985), 223-34.; (2) “The Sorcerer's Apprentice,” The College of Sociology, 1937Ð39, ed. Denis Hollier, trans. Betsy Wing (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), 12Ð23.

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1. La Nouvelle Revue française published Bataille’s “L’apprenti sorcier” as part of a set of three articles under the general title “Pour une Collège de sociologie,” the other two articles being Michel Leiris’s “Le sacré dans la vie quotidienne” (“The Sacred in Everyday Life) and Roger Caillois’s “” (“The Winter Wind”).

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1. The inspiration for the title apparently came from Alexandre Kojève’s dismissal of Bataille’s

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