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Story of the Eye

Name: Story of the Eye
Author: Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Original title Histoire de l'œil (French, 1928)

Story of the Eye is a 1928 novella written by Georges Bataille, as a psychoanalytical task, that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits.

“We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.”

Georges Bataille book Story of the Eye

Source: Story of the Eye

“Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror”

Georges Bataille book Story of the Eye

Source: Story of the Eye

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