A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal, and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes.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 sacrilegious, 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.This edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'.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).If you enjoyed Story of the Eye, you might like Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'His black masterpiece ... [a] brilliant, exquisitely fetishistic tale of sexual agitaion'New Statesman
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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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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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"The Story of the Eye" is a surprisingly well-written pornographic novella about the sexual awakening of three French teenagers and the extremes to which they go to explore and fulfill their fantasies. The central theme of the book is desire: how desire often manifests itself in eccentric and perverse ways, how desire for certain objects or acts have associational roots in childhood experiences that we cannot now recall and therefore remain unconscious, how desire is frequently repressed by society with sometimes tragic consequences. The book, as many here have noted, is at times shocking, but I would say a fairer characterization of it is as colorful and daring. Read it expecting to be startled or even upset by some of the events that take place, and it probably won't have any more harmful effect on you than, say, a Surrealist film by Salvador Dali such as "Un Chien Andalou" or a graphic sexual painting by Marcel Duchamps. Furthermore, the closing section of the book goes a long way toward putting the events that have been recounted in context and "bringing you down" back to reality after the horrifying, though highly stylized and symbolic, scene in the next-to-last chapter. Take the book with a grain of salt, and then dive in and try to enjoy it.
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Dieses Buch mag einige Leute schockieren , jedoch erfährt man nachdem man sich bis zum Nachwort durchgeschlagen hat, dass alles in diesem doch teilweise sehr perversen Buch einen tieferen Sinn in sich birgt. Daher wäre es vielleicht zu empfehlen, sich das Nachwort vorher einmal durchzulesen, um das Buch später nicht als billige Pornolektüre zu beschimpfen. Wer diesen Punkt beim Lesen berücksichtigt, erfährt auf diese Weise interessante Eindrücke aus der sehr traurigen Vergangenheit Batailles. Dennoch ist dieses Buch recht harter Tobak und nichts für zartbeseitete Seelen.
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Georges Bataille often falls between the cracks of literary identificaton because his work straddles so many uncomfortable realms. A sometime-Surrealist who had a falling out with Andre Breton, Bataille's books are often compared to the Marquis de Sade's. Reading "Story of the Eye" it's not hard to see why: two teenage lovers experiment with their bodies and with foreign objects; eventually their erotic adventures include madness, torture, murder and the death of a bullfighter.
This is strange, heady stuff--fortunately the book is barely 100 pages long. This is underground literature at its finest, mocking the pretensions of culture, of decency, morality, and healthy sexuality. Bataille's style can be obtuse but can also illuminate dark, forbidden corners of humanity. If you're into de Sade, Wm. Burroughs, Surrealism, Clive Barker, the psychology of fetishism, or just want something to read that is light years from the crappy bestseller lists, read "The Story of the Eye" and introduce yourself to the unholy world of Georges Bataille.
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just trying to make a buck
Story of the Eye was a real let down. Why did he write it? I guess he was just starting out and needed to make the money to write his great works - I don't know. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juli 2000 von Michelle Goins
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Beatifully written
This is probably the most perverse, and yet one of the most beautifully written, books I've ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. April 2000 von "grandmasterspam3"
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Gothic metaphysical pretension doesn't get any better than this. This is one of Bataille's best. Extroadinarily adept in evoking Bataille's rich and profoundly unique atmosphere,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. März 2000 von "777777"
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Porn as art? Why not?
If you take this book, open it to a random page and read a random paragraph, you'll get some sort of twisted sexual image every time (I actually did this with a group of friends... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Februar 2000 von Tim
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an amazing piece of literature
Although my own personality can best be described as one of near-Victorian prudery, I was awed by the literary skill displayed in this volume. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
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How can anyone like this book?
This book has no artistic value whatsoever. You may as well buy a porn magazine. Even if you can get past all the disgusting sexual details, there is no substance to the story. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
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Bataille was a visionary and a hero.
This book is not only the Story of The Eye, it is also in a way the story of us all. Bataille, the apostle of defilement, offers us all that is the converse of contemporary... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Dezember 1999 von Blake Money
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A splendid tale of initiation
Quite apart from the gruesome details, this is a wonderful story of a prolonged initiation to oversexuality. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. September 1999 veröffentlicht
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Nauseating In The Extreme--I'm Still Traumatized After 7 Yrs
If you're looking for something appalling for sheer shock value, this is the book for you. It's been 7 yrs since I've read this story and I still get the creeps just thinking about... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
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brilliant
Batille's "Story of the Eye" is a brilliantly distrubing tale of a twisted coming of age.
a quick read, and a must read.
Am 25. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
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