Story of the Eye | Georges Bataille | Filth and philosophy as only the French can serve it up

Story of the Eye | Georges Bataille | Grotesque and Disturbing...A Classic

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Story of the Eye

	Story of the Eye Georges Bataille City Lights Publishers, 2001 - 104 pages average customer review:based on 55 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Filth and philosophy as only the French can serve it up

Published nearly 80 years ago, *Story of the Eye* may still be the wildest ((and weirdest)) pornographic novel ever written. Sadomasochism, underage orgies, golden showers, homicide, necrophilia, soft-boiled eggs--and all of it in a story less than one hundred pages in length. Outstanding!

Couched in a super-lucid prose of hyperbolic surreality, *Story of the Eye* is a record of the x-rated exploits of two young lovers--the narrator and the lovely Simone, who he meets on a family vacation. Equally inexperienced and perfectly matched in their precocious perversity, they set about discovering their sexuality through a series of escalating debaucheries, sucking into their erotic vortex a mentally fragile blonde, a rich English psychopath, and a priest. Bataille seems determined to out-Sade deSade and he largely succeeds in outdoing the divine Marquis, spicing up the lewd proceedings with liberal doses of libertine philosophy and poetically-fueled descriptions of the most ordinarily unpoetic and sordid of acts.

Still, when all is said and done, *Story of the Eye* is truly a work of literature. You can tell because you're never once tempted to read with one hand! Complete with what amounts to a short "making of *Story of the Eye*" author's note, which traces the autobiographical links between Bataille's early life and the events of the novel, here is a fascinating take on the perverse imagination by one of its greatest theorists.

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Grotesque and Disturbing...A Classic

What more can you say about Bataille's great contribution to surrealism? Read it, and be wrenched from your complacency. Surrender your prejudices, shatter your preconceptions, get sick, be healed.

georges, georges, georges... man o man

Eyes, eggs, bull's balls. The whiteness and yellowness of the depraved universe in which we swim.
Where to start? Bullfights appall me. But women sitting in plates of milk I find rather appealing. And priests being brought face to face with their own inherent lust... well, it probably doesn't bother me as much as it should.
If you're having a bad day, just be glad you aren't Georges Bataille. The man lived in constant agony, and he suffered for his art. I am annoyed by snarky people on this website who whine that this book didn't fulfill their preconceptions. If it did, you should see a psychiatrist.
Georges Bataille was an extremely strange man. And the most strange thing about him was that he was ALIVE, and did not prune down his obsessions in order to match his neighbors' lawns.
Good on you, Georges. Thank you for your sacrifice.

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Brilliant,,,

I decided to read this book out of curiosity when I read that Bjork had recommended everyone to read it. I knew that i was in for a shocking treat. Is it shocking? Yes, indeed. I personally wasn't too shocked by the erotic acts itself in the book, since none of it was new to me. I found it more shocking by how beautifully and yet frightful the narrative was...its such a page turner and definitely worth reading!

Only the French Can Match Erotic Literature with Philosophy

In "Story of the Eye", George Bataille combines the philosophy of the day (1928 France) - Surrealism - and weaves it into the tale of sexual depravity. This book has brings all of the forbidden sins to the table, including soft-boiled eggs! (You'll have to read it as I am not giving up the ghost on that one.)

I read this book fresh out of college while working a Generation X job in a bookstore; I found it on the shelf while shelving more mundane faire. It was stuck between two larger books and the gap caught my eye. Now, fifteen years later it is time for a new generation to discover this nifty AND disgusting psycho-sexual, philosophical novella.

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