 Story
of the Eye by Georges
Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator).
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.
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