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Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch (Penguin Modern Classics) by Georges Bataille
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Product Group
- Book
- Age Level
- Adults
- Modified Item
- No
- Series
- Story of the Eye
- Date Published
- 26 April 20
- ISBN-10
- 0141185384
- EAN
- 9780141185385
- Brand
- Penguin Classics UK ed edition
- MPN
- Does Not Apply
- Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780141185385
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Story of the Eye
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- Penguin Books LTD
- Genre
- Adult & Erotic
- Topic
- Books
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 100 g
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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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'.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 Anais 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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Penguin Books LTD
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Story of the Eye
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Adult & Erotic
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
100 g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Penguin Modern Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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