Story of the EyePenguin, 2001 - 128 páginas A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal, and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes. Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacrilegious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille's obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century. This edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'. Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French essayist and novelist, was born in Billom, France. He converted to Catholicism, then later to Marxism, and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism, forming a secret society dedicated to glorifying human sacrifice. Leading a simple life as the curator of a municipal library, Bataille was involved on the fringes of Surrealism, founding the Surrealist magazine Documents in 1929, and editing the literary review Critique from 1946 until his death. Among his other works are the novels Blue of Noon (1957) and My Mother (1966), and the essays Eroticism (1957) and Literature and Evil (1957). If you enjoyed Story of the Eye, you might like Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'His black masterpiece ... [a] brilliant, exquisitely fetishistic tale of sexual agitaion' |
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... bull made its endless , blindly raging dashes at the void of coloured cloths . And there is something else I ought to say : when the bull makes its quick , brutal , thrusts over and over again into the matador's cape , barely grazing ...
... bull grazes the body and because the pants so tightly sheathe the behind . A bright red cloth and a brilliant sword ( before the dying bull whose hide steams with sweat and blood ) complete the metamorphosis , bringing out the most ...
... bull ; but the moment I reached this death scene , I was totally taken aback . The opening of the priest's eye was ... bull's horn tear out a matador's eye . Thus , precisely the two images that probably most upset me had sprung from the ...
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Part Two COINCIDENCES | 69 |
The Pornographic Imagination | 83 |
The Metaphor of the Eye | 119 |
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