Georges Bataille

on bataille as the exemplification of the excessive object called "Text"

"the Text does not stop at (good) Literature; it cannot be contained in a hierarchy, even in a simple division of genres. what constitutes the Text is, on the contrary (or precisely), its subversive force in respect of the old classifications. how do you classify a writer like georges bataille? novelist, poet, essayist, economist, philosopher, mystic? the answer is so difficult that the literary manuals generally prefer to forget about Bataille who, in fact, wrote texts, perhaps continuously one single text." [Barthes, Roland. "From Work to Text." Image Music Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. London: Fontana, 1977.]