Georges Bataille
La littérature et le mal.
Paris: Gallimard, 2004. Collection Folio essais. 2070326071 201 pages
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", is like new. 
”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is guilty and should admit itself so.” The word, the flesh, and the devil are explored by this extraordinary intellect in the work of eight outstanding authors: Emily Bronte, Baudelaire, Blake, Michelet, Kafka, Proust, Genet and De Sade.