Inner Experience

Inner Experience

Cover of the first edition
Author	Georges Bataille
Original title	L'expérience intérieure
Translator	Leslie Anne Boldt
Country	France
Language	French
Publisher	Éditions Gallimard, State University of New York Press
Publication date	1943
Published in English	1988
Media type	Print
Pages	209 (English edition)
ISBN	0-88706-635-6

Inner Experience (French: L'expérience intérieure) is a 1943 book by the French intellectual Georges Bataille. His first lengthy philosophical treatise, it was followed by Guilty (1944) and On Nietzsche (1945). Together, the three works constitute Bataille's Summa Atheologica, in which he explores the experience of excess, expressed in forms such as laughter, tears, eroticism, death, sacrifice and poetry.^[1]