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Apr 04, 1872 Nîmes, Occitania, France Died on 02 Mar 1922 (aged 49)
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About Henry Bataille
- Félix-Henri Bataille (4 April 1872 in Nîmes – 2 March 1922 in Rueil-Malmaison) was a French dramatist and poet.
- His works were popular between 1900 and the start of World War I. Bataille's parents died when he was young.
- He attended the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian to study painting, but started writing when he was 14.
- Henry wrote plays and poems, but after the success of his second play, La Lépreuse, he became a playwright exclusively.
- Bataille's early works explored the effects of passion on human motivation and how stifling the social conventions of the times could be.
- For example, Maman Colibri, is about a middle-aged woman's affair with a younger man.
- Later, Bataille would gravitate towards the theater of ideas and social drama. Bataille was also a theorist of subconscious motivation.
- While he did not use his theories in most of his own works, he influenced later playwrights such as Jean-Jacques Bernard and the "school of silence".
