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Story of the Eye
Story of the Eye | Georges Bataille
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Novel, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Bataille's scandalous STORY OF THE EYE, written under the pseudonym Lord Auch, centers around the exploits of a young couple exploring the utmost boundaries of the sacred and profane. This hallucinatory melding of sex and religion has lost none of its transgressive power since its original publication in the 1920s, and prefigures Bataille's later studies of death and sensuality, including EROTISM and THE TEARS OF EROS, also published by City Lights and available from SPD.
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Parvez
Story of the Eye | Georges Bataille
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Mehso-so

This one was weird!!!
The story consists of several vignettes, each following an unnamed adolescent narrator, and Simone, his principal sexual partner. They begin an affair of exploration, both physically and metaphorically, but soon began to explore new avenues.
It‘s much more than a book about sex. It‘s a story of eroticism in its most exquisite forms.

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Wellreadhead
Story of the Eye | Georges Bataille
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Pickpick

A dirty little book by an unhappy Frenchman!
#bookreview #newblogpost #books #novel
#athinsliceofanxiety #blogging #mustread #mondayreads
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GondorGirl Ahhh... that picture is so creepy! 😨 7y
CouronneDhiver Yikes! 7y
Wellreadhead It is pretty disturbing, but so is the book, lol 7y
BookwormM Hated this 7y
Wellreadhead @BookwormM yeah, I get that, it‘s definitely not for everyone 7y
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BarbaraBB
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Panpan

I don't mind sex. At all. But 70 pages with nothing but sex with lots of urine, eggs and ultimately an eye, bored me. I probably didn't get the point, but then again, I am not interested. #1001books

nathandrake1997 Glad I'm not the only one! I love transgressive fiction but this was a laughably cartoonish snoozefest! 2y
BarbaraBB @nathandrake1997 Right?! Not worth our time! 2y
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