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counteract(dictionary)
Bataille, Georges(encyclopedia)
BATTEL, in French Bataille; Old English law(law)

Bataille, Georges (sh) and counteract (oh)


Bataille, Georges (sh)




born Sept. 10, 1897, Billom, France
died July 9, 1962, Paris

French librarian and writer.

He trained as an archivist and worked at the Bibliotheque Nationale and at the Orleans library. He wrote a number of novels under pseudonyms before publishing Le Coupable (1944; Guilty) under his own name. His novels, essays, and poetry show a fascination with eroticism, mysticism, violence, and an ideal of excess and waste. In 1946 he founded the influential literary review Critique, which he edited until his death.


counteract (oh)



to reduce or prevent the bad effect of something, by doing something that has the opposite effect
::They gave him drugs to counteract his withdrawal symptoms.
-- counteraction /-5AkFEn/ n [U and C]