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AbstractA great admirer of Russian fiction in the 1920s, Bataille carefully read two of Dostoyevsky's intercessors in France: Thibaudet and Gide. The first, who also developed potential pathways for Bataille's literary enterprise, highlighted the issue of patricide—and the debasement of parental figures was to be a constant in Bataille's fiction. The second emphasized the opaqueness of Dostoevsky's characters, their excesses, a certain tendency towards the “formless”, and the narrative entitled Notes from Underground, all features Bataille would retain. But what ultimately counted for him was Chestov's 1923 reading, in Les révélations de la mort (The Revelations of Death), of Notes from Underground and his analysis of the underground man: of this analysis, “Dirty” would be at once narration and narrative excess.
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