The Solar Anus, originally L’anus solaire is a very peculiar work in the surrealistic genre. It was written in 1927 by the French author Georges Bataille and illustrated by André Masson in a later edition. From the book:
“An abandoned shoe, a rotten tooth, a snub nose, the cook spitting in the soup of his masters are to love what a battle flag is to nationality. An umbrella, a sexagenarian, a seminarian, the smell of rotten eggs, the hollow eyes of judges are the roots that nourish love. A dog devouring the stomach of a goose, a drunken vomiting woman, a sobbing accountant, a jar of mustard represent the confusion that serves as the vehicle of love.”
Download English version of The Solar Anus here (26 pages/1.7MB):
The Solar Anus
Surrealism runs on jokes | Witz Freud (1905) – more Jungian: Association| Similarity slips
l’anus solaire
l’année solaire