Fragments
Paris, Editions Cahiers d'Art, (May) 1948.
1 vol. (120 x 195 mm) of 101 p. and [1] f. In wrappers, uncut, in chemise and slipcase.
New translation by Yves Battistini. Foreword by René Char.
Signed presentation inscription: “À Georges Bataille avec la profonde estime d’Yves Battistini et la pensée reconnaissance de René Char.”
Signed presentation inscription: “À Georges Bataille avec la profonde estime d’Yves Battistini et la pensée reconnaissance de René Char.”
Heraclitus is one of the principal Greek philosophers known as the Presocratics: his philosophy is known to us only through ancient authors who cited him from the fourth century BC to the end of Antiquity, notably the most eminent among them — Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius and Seneca. His sayings, relatively few in number, around a hundred, and often enigmatic in the manner of oracles, have been gathered under the title Fragments: it is to these that René Char, a master of the aphorism and of a poetry that is itself fragmentary, turns.
A fine provenance linking both authors to Georges Bataille.
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