Story of the Eye |  | Author: Georges Bataille
Creator: Dovid Bergelson
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 26,783
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: First City Lights Edition
Pages: 103
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0872862097
EAN: 9780872862098
ASIN: 0872862097
Publication Date: January 1, 2001
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Product Description
In 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.
Amazon.com Review
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing." Bataille has been called a "metaphysician of evil," specializing in blasphemy, profanation, and horror. Story of the Eye, written in 1928, is his best-known work; it is unashamedly surrealistic, both disgusting and fascinating, and packed with seemingly endless violations. It's something of an underground classic, rediscovered by each new generation. Most recently, the Icelandic pop singer Björk Guðdmundsdóttir cites Story of the Eye as a major inspiration: she made a music video that alludes to Bataille's erotic uses of eggs, and she plans to read an excerpt for an album. Warning: Story of the Eye is graphically sexual, and is only for adults who are not easily offended.
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