In his critical literature essay The literature and Evil (1957), Georges Bataille use a panoplies of key ideas intertwined to justify the Sovereignty of Evil in Literature and, at the same time, the Sovereignty of Literature by Evil. Using a research bibliographic, the aim of this paper is to show that this notions and options of thought have been already present in various anterior philosophical, economical and political works, even mystical, and its may constitute the heuristic base of his sociology. To Bataille, the Literature is Communication. It begins in a sovereign author, it passes by the serfdom of an isolated reader, and it arrives in a sovereign humanity.
Literature; Evil; Communication; Heterogeneity; Sacred Nucleus