Bataille, Georges (1897–1962)

French journalist, economist, poet, and prose writer. His fiction includes Madame Edwarda (1937), L'Abbé C (1950), Le Bleu du ciel/Blue of Noon (1957), and Ma Mère/My Mother (1966). He also produced essays on art, texts about aesthetics and writing, and books of philosophical meditation.

Bataille was influential as a writer and as editor of the monthly journal Critique, which he edited from 1946 until his death.