The guy started as a smut writer and then later got into politics and philosophy. He has my favorite posting beef ever, on par with Marx and Stirner, where he feuded with the French absurdist art movement. They prominently claimed Marquis de Sade as an influence to which Bataille called them grifting posers because (paraphrasing here) “they didn’t even eat shit.” Absolutely wild dude. Started a cult and tried to get his cult friends to assassinate him as a Jesus figure in a poorly thought out plan to stop the rise of fascism