Story of the eyeIn 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche and in the investigations of contemporary psychology; it also forecasts Bataille's own theories of ecstasy, death and transgression which he developed in later work. |
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User Review - EadieB - LibraryThingBook Description 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 ... Read full review
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User Review - sighedtosleep - LibraryThingThis book is filthy, and not in the fun way. This is the most disturbing book I've ever read. It is as offensive as you can get, save for maybe incest, but even that wouldn't be too out of place in ... Read full review
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| Title | Story of the eye Penguin classics Penguin modern classics |
| Author | Georges Bataille |
| Editors | Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes |
| Contributors | Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin, 2001 |
| Length | 128 pages |
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