Story of the Eye

Synopsis

Bataille's first novel: 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. "bataille's works .