Story of the Eye (Penguin Classics)

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Story of the Eye (Penguin Classics)

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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’.

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Author: Bataille, Georges
Year: 2001
ISBN: 9780141185385
Pages: 128
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin classics
Publisher's city: London
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