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  Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch (Paperback) By (author) Georges Bataille, Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, Introduction by Susan Sontag, Introduction by Roland Barthes

  

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  Short Description for Story of the EyeA pornographic fantasy in which 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.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 26 April 2001
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780141185385 ISBN 10: 0141185384
  • Sales rank: 17,290

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• 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 sacreligious, "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.