Transgressive Eroticism in Bataille's Novels

閱讀巴岱伊的情色小說完全不同於以引起讀者性愉悅為導向的主流情色小說。巴岱伊的小說不但缺乏引起讀者性慾的橋段，更令讀者感到震驚的是他的小說中充滿了暴力、謀殺、亂倫和死亡。這些議題被視為禁忌。從這角度來看，巴岱伊德情色小說目的是針對禁忌這個議題。他的小說勢必然讓堅守社會規範的讀者感到興趣缺缺，甚至感到厭煩。此外，讀者更對小說中不斷地融合矛盾的要素感到困惑。此篇文章著重探討巴岱伊的情色的基本要素。首先，文章探討為何巴岱伊使用女性身體去闡明其情色論。再者，文章並探討巴岱伊如何劃分情色與動物式的性。第三部分探討巴岱伊情色小說中的耗費原則及他如何闡明情色為一種再生的力量。

關鍵字

巴岱伊；情色；禁忌

並列摘要

Reading Georges Bataille's erotic novels is utterly different from reading mainstream erotic literature which targets readers' sense of excitement. Bataille's novels are not abundant in erotic scenes which are intended to cause arousal in readers. Much to his readers' astonishment, his novels are teeming with shocking and confusing forces, such as violence, killing, incest, and death. These forces terrify the reader on a basic level and are thus marked as taboo. It can be argued that Bataille's erotic novels were penned in order to deal with such prohibitions. It comes as no surprise that his novels are bound to disinterest or provoke readers who adhere to culture norms. Apart from the aforementioned repulsive forces, the paradoxical coexistence of opposition makes readers even more puzzled. This article investigates the essence of Bataille's eroticism. Firstly, the article delves into the following research questions: Why does Bataille employ the female form rather than the male form to explicate the human eroticism? Secondly, how does the concept of inner experience, Bataille puts forward, serve to distinguish humans' eroticism from animal sexuality? In the third part, the principle of loss in Batialle's erotic novels is examined. Above all, this article shows that the eroticism Bataille draws on is a force which may undermine our constructed social being, which is a form of rebirth.