Georges Bataille (1897-1962) is an exceptional phenomenon of French culture of the 20th century. The works of this writer and thinker, which caused a significant resonance during his lifetime, have been attracting the attention of critics for several decades, which sees them as an unusually deep embodiment of the contradictions of modern culture. The volume of literary prose of the largest French writer and thinker of the 20th century Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) includes novels and novels "The Story of the Eye", "Heavenly Blue", "Julia", "The Impossible", "Abbot C. "Divinus Deus", the first part of which is "Madame Edward" Striving for the “impossible” mystical experience, the heroes of Bataille explore the gloomy, often repulsive depths of the human psyche, debauchery serves them as a means of religious search.