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| Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch (Penguin Modern Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Georges Bataille
Creator: Joachim Neugroschal
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 35489
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0141185384
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780141185385
ASIN: 0141185384
Publication Date: April 26, 2001
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Condition: This is in great condition
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| Customer Reviews:
 Seriously lacking in something. May 3, 2001
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this book after reading other reviews, and have to say that it is really one of the worst books I have ever read. It wasn't the sexual content that I thought was bad, but the whole story and the style of writing. I was wondering while reading it, if it had lost something in the translation- some of the phrases used were just ridiculous, and whole chunks of information seemd to be missed out. I definitely would not recommend this book to anyone. It didn't excite, or even disgust me.
 Violent, morbid and disturbing; a masterpiece of pornography June 15, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Story of the Eye" is a visit to the extremes of Bataille's consciousness; blessed are those who return intact from this horrific journey. More 'real life' than Sade, this is an excellent example for Shattuck's formulation of "forbidden knowledge". A must for connoisseurs of pornographic literature.
brilliant October 24, 1998
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Batille's "Story of the Eye" is a brilliantly distrubing tale of a twisted coming of age.a quick read, and a must read.
A Gothic Glimpse Into Undergound Reality. March 26, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This tale travels in lurid sketches detailing the experiences & experiments of 3 people who lived up at their own & got away with it.Their obsessions & fantasies executed in highly mysterious & near supernatural imagery leave a detachingly cold atmosphere in short & cluttered sentences occassionally highlighted by bits of lyricism.Their sinister perversions & mania for the gravel of sexual satisfaction & eventual accomplishment of this stretches the boundaries of subcultural degeneracy a bit furhther.The characters analogousness in each undertaking exemplify mankind fulfilling the natural dictates of what I would call the "Basic Fixative Essence" of things.Simone's fascination for the things she satisfies herself on is a perfect illustration of man rediscovering the core of his basest desires.Fetishisms arise in ecstatic motions in this slightly revolutionary novelette,including the famous augmentation of the sex impulse through the rending sights & scents of nature.The piece powerfully ends in a revealing sadness surprising for it's romantic symbolitry imprinted by an unforgettable vision of sight.These works of art are best appreciated when one has no preconceived notions;when one can enter it's world & LIVE IN IT rather than merely browsing through.
"Eye" an Eyeful March 22, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"The Story of the Eye" is the finest book ever written about the idea that one can take pleasure from acts like sitting down in a puddle of milk, placing a plucked eyeball in one's most intimate anatomical area, and inserting a hard-boiled egg into one's rectum. Experimental, arrogant, and sexually insatiable, the novel's two young lovers embark on a carnal odyssey (involving, among other things, suicide and some blasphemous debauchery in a confessional) that is, simply put, not for the faint of heart.
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