This new translation of Bataille's first short novel - published in
France in 1928, it predates the more renowned Story of O - arrives
with blurbs from Susan Sontag and Jean-Paul Sartre that may or may
not convince you that this unabashed, undecorated pornography
approaches a "serious literary genre." The youthful narrator and
his friends - Simone, Marcelle, and Sir Edmond - move from kinky
but harmless sex-play (it may do for eggs what Last Tango did for
butter) to the nauseating seduction-murder-mutilation of a
terrified priest. Perhaps Simone's thigh games with the priest's
eye (or maybe Marcelle's suicide) are what propel this tale into
the realms of literature, but "Indeed, we virtually never stopped
having sex," and Neugroschel's totally accessible translation moves
the French vernacular into American vernacular with paperback-porn
panache. Daring in its time, undoubtedly, but strangely familiar
now. (Kirkus Reviews)
In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a
pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the
erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and
sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the
Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche and in the
investigations of contemporary psychology; it also forecasts
Bataille's own theories of ecstasy, death and transgression which
he developed in later work.
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