num_pages: 184
description: Patrick ffrench gives an imaginative theoretical reading of the unsettling masterpiece, Histoire de l'oeil (1928), by the French writer Georges Bataille, recognized now as a major figure in twentieth-century French literature. Bataille's erotic and disturbing text is a traumatic event in thehistory of modernity, provoking critical moments in the trajectories of structuralism and in the recent theorizations around his notion of the informe .
language: English
title: The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil
titlecomplete: The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs)
genres: Theory
ratings_count: 6
publisher: British Academy