Blue of Noon

Blue of Noon

Cover of the first edition
Author	Georges Bataille
Original title	Le Bleu du Ciel
Translator	Harry Mathews
Country	France
Language	French
Genre	Erotic literature Historical fiction
Publisher	Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Publication date	1957
Published in English	1978
Media type	Print
Pages	155
ISBN	9780893960049
OCLC	4655848
Dewey Decimal	843.912
Preceded by	Manet
Followed by	La littérature et le Mal

Blue of Noon (French: Le Bleu du Ciel) is an erotic novella by Georges Bataille. Although Bataille completed the work in 1935, it was not published until Jean-Jacques Pauvert did so in 1957. (Pauvert previously published the writings of the Marquis de Sade.) Urizen Books published Harry Mathews' English-language translation in 1978. The book deals with necrophilia.^[1]