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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

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Story of the Eye (French: Histoire de l'oeil ) is a novella written by Georges Bataille that details the sexual experimentation of two teenage lovers, and their increasing perversion . It is narrated by the young man looking back on his experiences. In...


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Critical Essay by Roland Barthes
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Although Georges Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil includes several named characters and the narrative of their erotic adventures, he certainly does not give us the story of Simone, Marcelle, or the narrator…. Histoire de l'oeil is actually the story of an object. How can an object have a story? No doubt it can pass from hand to hand (thereby occasioning insipid fictions like The Story of My Pipe or Memoirs of an Armchair); it can also pass from image to image, so that its story is t...


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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

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