Las lágrimas de Eros

For Bataille, Eros constitutes the darkest enigma of the human being, and in the pages of this vibrant essay, its author wonders about the links that unite eroticism and death. Through a selective and personal history of painting, from Prehistory to Mannerism and beyond, the author sheds a relentless light on the greatness and tragedies of human passions. This essay constitutes an extraordinary inquiry into the perennial concern of the human being, from the most remote times, before the unfathomable mysteries of sex and voluptuousness, so deeply and darkly rooted in the consciousness of death.