Blog this item

Story of the Eye

By Georges Bataille

(21)

| Paperback | 9780872862098

Like Story of the Eye?
Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books!

Book Description

In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and NieContinue

Critics

Forbidden Fruit

What we call pornography has many guises, and it may seem a long way from the dark, patrician pleasures of the Marquis de Sade to the topless, bottomless, endless promises of Forty-Second Street. Roughly the same distance, perhaps, as there is betwee ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

1 Review

So awful, the two stars are from the hilarious self-obession of the author and his effort to sound so profound about something that is essentially gross-out porn.

Is this helpful?

EmiliaDarling said on Dec 21, 2010 | Add your feedback