Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges / Bergelson, Dovid
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 de...