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Story of the Eye Study Guide

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by Georges Bataille
About 26 pages (7,908 words)
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The Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille is hailed as the first of its kind. This novel is an erotic story that involves a young couple who become fascinated not only with eggs and other such objects, but with a young girl who is so scandalized by their attentions she kills herself. Later the couple comes to enjoy public sexual encounters and find themselves attacking a priest in his own church. The Story of the Eye is a sexually charged novel of immorality that will both offend and entertain modern readers.

The narrator falls in love with a young girl he meets at the beach. When he learns that this girl is a distant relative, the narrator finds himself drawn to her side as often as possible. The girl, Simone, sees the narrator's interest and begins.....

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