Apprendre à entendre avec Georges Bataille : lecture de la voix

“Literature is the only voice […] that we give to the wish to resolve nothing” (Bataille, 1988: 325), declared Georges Bataille in 1957. This paper aims to study the question of the voice as a critical point in thinking about the writings of this author. The riddle of the sphinx tells us that the being that first goes on four legs, then two, and finally three, “has but one voice”. Which voice is it? How is the voice a sign of the man? In what way does the voice figure in his work? As such, if literature is “voice”, it is not empty but expressive; it constantly exposes the continuous movement of a topic in its discourse, which is the rhythmic pattern of the discourse. Reading Georges Bataille will be learning to make sense of that voice, learning to hear it, hence, the necessity of making the eye the means of hearing the text, and the man