Story of the Eye

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A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye is a shocking and sacrilegious work that remains his most notorious novel. Published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', it follows a young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle as they embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. 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 stands as one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century. This edition includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'. It is translated by Joachim Neugroschal. 'His black masterpiece ... a brilliant, exquisitely fetishistic tale of sexual agitation' — New Statesman