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Story of the Eye

By Georges Bataille

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2001
ISBN
0141185384, 9780141185385
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
102 kB (104795 bytes)
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Pages
128\0
Time added
2014-11-08 20:14:26

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 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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