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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... pissed down her leg , and a tiny trickle of water had landed on the brass . We noted a further effect of her accident : the thin dress , being wet , stuck to her body , and since the cloth was now fully transparent , Simone's attractive ...
... pissed . Furthermore , he had huge , ever - gaping eyes that flanked an eagle nose , and those huge eyes went almost entirely blank when he pissed , with a completely stupefying expression of abandon and aberration in a world that he ...
... pissed in front of the child . But in this case it is the very equivalence of the ocular and the genital that is original , not one of its terms : the paradigm begins nowhere . This indeterminacy of the metaphorical order , usually ...
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Part Two COINCIDENCES | 69 |
The Pornographic Imagination | 83 |
The Metaphor of the Eye | 119 |
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