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George Bataille |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: City Lights Books (September 01, 1987)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.35 lbs.
ISBN: 9780872862098 |
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Georges Bataille's THE STORY OF THE EYE was first published in 1928 under the pseudonym Lord Auch (a vulgar French pun, meaning "Lord to the S___house") and was banned numerous times for obscenity. Long-considered pure pornography, the novel would become a staple of underground and subversive literature, and eventually received academic acclaim from such critics as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. Unsettling, surreal, and aggressively debased, the novella's narrator is a sexually deviant teenage boy who finds a perfect partner for debauchery in Simone, an equally perverse teenage girl. Their sexual acts include fornicating in front of Simone's mother; ravishing one of their innocent young friends, Marcelle, to such an extreme that she goes insane; and inducing an orgy that scandalizes their small town. The two eventually flee to Spain where under the care of a depraved aristocrat, their trespasses eventually expand to include sacrilegious acts and murder. Throughout the book, Bataille creates bizarre erotic |
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