The volume of literary prose by the greatest French writer and thinker of the 20th century, Georges Bataille (1897–1962), includes novels and stories “The History of the Eye”, “Heavenly Blue”, “Julia”, “The Impossible”, “Abbé S.” and "Divinus Deus", the first part of which is "Madame Edward". Striving for an “impossible” mystical experience, Bataille’s characters explore the dark, often repulsive depths of the human psyche; debauchery serves as a means of religious quest. The publication is equipped with a rich scientific apparatus and is intended both for specialists in modern literature and culture, and for a wider audience. The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.