Story of the eye
Editorial GRANTA BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher GRANTA BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780141185385
- ISBN10 0141185384
- Type Book
- Pages 128
- Collection Penguin Modern Classics #
- Published 2001
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Sections
English LiteratureStory of the eye
Editorial GRANTA BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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. It appears here with Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', and Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'.