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Story of the Eye (Penguin Modern Classics)
Story of the Eye - Penguin Modern Classics Author:Georges Bataille 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 p... more »sychology; it also forecasts Bataille's own theories of ecstasy, death and transgression which he developed in later work.« less