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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 Nietzsche and in the investigations of contemporary psychology; it also forecasts Bataille's own theories of ecstasy, death and transgression which he developed in later work.
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Brian Macneil
reviewed Story of the Eye on August 21, 2016
Story of the Eye
What the hell did I just read? -_-
I have enough trouble digesting genre erotica as it is, but this came out of the blue and hit me like a burning meteor shattering everything of the self-knowledge of my sense of desire. Don't get me wrong, prude I am not; I love my erotic writing, sexual investigations, the Freudian truths, and sexual fantasies too, speaking of which, this is a twisted sexual fantasy overwhelmed by its own craziness and charged with an assemblage of layered symbolism, wherein a range of fetishes explode into a shocking act of sex-fueled brutality, culminating in our lead protagonist's, one sixteen-year-old Simone, wanting to scoop out the eyes of living people to sate her desire.
I ventured to explain such extraordinary relations by assuming a profound region of my mind, where certain images coincide, the elementary ones, the completely obscene ones, i.e., the most scandalous, precisely those on which the conscious floats indefinitely, unable to endure them without an explosion or aberration.
Forgo convoluted pontifications about the concordat between sex, violence and death, around which the Story of the Eye is supposed to revolve, and for which it was praised by big names such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, and read it if you can stomach crass, hallucinatory, vintage sex scenes of people urinating on one another, engaged in blood-spattered sexual orgies, and obsessing with a central metaphor of the eye consistent with other soft, jelly-like, warm and meat-hued objects, to possess and sexualise them. Also read if you want to learn how to break eggs between your buttocks while standing on your head!
I can't think of a single piece of writing which uses "cunt" as profusely as this one. The author explains early on why.
Cunt…this name, which I always used with Simone, is, I think, by far the loveliest of the names for the vagina.
This is an extremely un-sexy story to read and it fascinated and disturbed me in equal measure. *swallows*
August '16
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