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Story of the Eye
by George Bataille
ISBN: 0872862097
ISBN-13: 9780872862098
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Georges Bataille's THE STORY OF THE EYE was first published in 1928 under the pseudonym Lord Auch (a vulgar French pun, meaning "Lord to the S___house") and was banned numerous times for obscenity. Long-considered pure pornography, the novel would become a staple of underground and subversive literature, and eventually received academic acclaim from such critics as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. Unsettling, surreal, and aggressively debased, the novella's narrator is a sexually deviant teenage boy who finds a perfect partner for debauchery in Simone, an equally perverse teenage girl. Their sexual acts include fornicating in front of Simone's mother; ravishing one of their innocent young friends, Marcelle, to such an extreme that she goes insane; and inducing an orgy that scandalizes their small town. The two eventually flee to Spain where under the care of a depraved aristocrat, their trespasses eventually expand to include sacrilegious acts and murder. Throughout the book, Bataille creates bizarre erotic equations between eyeballs, peeled eggs, the sun, and the raw testicles of a bull that Simone eats while in Spain. The narrator is so obsessed with transgression that he finds normal sex completely unsatisfying, a concept that would appear in Bataille's later critical writing on the nature of the erotic (EROTISM: DEATH AND SENSUALITY, and THE TEARS OF EROS).
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published date: 1987
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.35 pounds
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Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille
City Lights Books. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information)
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STORY OF THE EYE
BATAILLE, Georges
SF: City Lights Books, 1987. 103 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Very Good+ but for two page corners turned down. Bright, tight and clean; no names, marks or spine creasing. ISBN: 0872862097 <em>Bataille has been called a 'metaphysician of evil,' specializing in blasphemy, profanation, & horror. His best-known work, unashamedly surrealistic. First published in 1928, this is considered one of the greatest works of pornography ever written.</em> ( more information)
Offered by Recollection Books (United States)
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Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges; Translated By Joachim Neugroschel
San Francisco, California: City Light Books, 1987. paperback. Good+/No Jacket. Moderate wear. ISBN: 0-87286-209-7. ( more information)
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Story of the Eye (Qty: 90)
Georges Bataille
City Lights Publishers, 01-Sep-1987. Paperback. NEW. Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: U20081118143356G ( more information)
Offered by A1Books (United States)
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Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges; Joachim Neugroschel (translator)
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: City Lights Books. 1987. First Thus. S Paperback. Very Good-. Light scuffing to covers, else clean and solid. ( more information)
Offered by Arundel Books of Seattle (United States)
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Story Of The Eye
Bataille, George
City Lights Books, 1987 First City Lights edition of this 1928 erotic novel. Fine Copy, trade paperback.. ( more information)
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Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges (Translated from the French by Joachim Neugroschel)
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1987. Currently in print for $9.95. IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. . First City Lights Edition. Quality Paperback. Very Good Plus. ( more information)
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STORY OF THE EYE
BATAILLE, GEORGES
CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES & DIST, 187. QUALITY PAPERBACK. VG. ( more information)
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Story of the Eye (Qty: 7)
Bataille, Georges
City Lights Publishers. PAPERBACK. 0872862097 We sell only brand new merchandise! . New. ( more information)
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Story of the Eye
Bataille, George [Joachim Neugroschel (transl.)]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1987. viii,103 pp. As issued.. First Thus. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
Offered by Saucony Book Shop (United States)
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Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges
City Lights Publishers. Paperback. 0872862097 Review Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that """"the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing."""" Bataille has been called a """"metaphysician of evil,"""" specializing in blasphemy, profanation, and horror. Story of the Eye, written in 1928, is his best-known work; it is unashamedly surrealistic, both disgusting and fascinating, and packed with seemingly endless violations. It's something of an underground classic, rediscovered by each new generation. Most recently, the Icelandic pop singer Bj÷rk Guðdmundsd?ttir cites Story of the Eye as a major inspiration: she made a music video that alludes to Bataille's erotic uses of eggs, and she plans to read an excerpt for an album. Warning: Story of the Eye is graphically sexual, and is only for adults who are not easily offended. Product 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 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. . Very Good. 1-Jan-01. ( more information)
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Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges; Austen, Jayne (translator)
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: City Lights Books, 1987 Book is NEW; unread. BOOKSMART offers free domestic shipping (media mail) on orders of three or more books.. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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story of the eye
bataille, georges
city lights-1987, 1987 good trade paper. edgewear. Soft cover. ( more information)
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Story of the Eye (Qty: 5)
Georges Bataille
City Lights Publishers, 2001-01-01. Paperback. New. Brand New. In Stock. Order Now. Ship from CA, IN, PA, OR, TN and FL. Over 600,000 CD/DVD, Books and bibles. Free tracking with every order.Top Biblio approved seller. International shipping is now available at low rates. ( more information)
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Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges
City Lights Publishers. PAPERBACK. 0872862097 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information)
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