Story of the eye
By: by Lord Auch ; translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Edition: 1st City Lights ed.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1987
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780872862098
Subjects: Erotic stories, French -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Description: "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 Björk Guðdmundsdóttir 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: At head of title: Georges Bataille.

Translation of: Histoire de l'œil.