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Story of the Eye
Penguin Modern Classics

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Paperback, 128 pages
Published
United Kingdom, 26 April 2001

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 sacreligious, 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.


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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 sacreligious, 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.

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9780141185385
ISBN
0141185384
Dimensions
19.8 x 12.9 x 0.7 centimeters (0.06 kg)

About the Author

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).

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By Nicholas on June 16, 2010
Bataille kicks the fires of the "pornography" argument, in anyone, when his intense descriptions of explicit (see hilarious) sexual encounters are compared with the obvious flair and consistency of his writing. The two essays that are included are from very different angles, but both serve to justify Short of the Eye as a legitimate source of intrigue and criticism. Roland Barthes, always on fire, traces the metonym of various repeated facets images (fluid, oval shaped things) into a great close reading, one that could serve as a wonderful guide to anyone approaching the same kind of structural criticism of any work, high and low, wrestling or Ulysses.
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