Franchir les frontières: lecture biopolitique de deux fictions de Georges Bataille (Crossing frontiers. A biopolitical reading of two fictional narratives by Georges Bataille)

This article studies the act of crossing physical frontiers taken in both their bodily and geographical dimensions, in Story of the Eye (1928) and Blue of Noon (1935). It suggests these texts can be read as erotic travel stories that reject the biopolitical view about bodies and territories in interwar Europe. And doing so, it overturns the critique expressed by Giorgio Agamben towards Bataille’s thoughts on the biopolitical and sovereignty, by showing that the dispute between the two authors stems from opposite views on the subject.