Perhaps paradoxically, to Bataille eroticism, when given full dominion, can only end in death, while the threat of death simultaneously reinforces, makes ever more alluring, that very same erotic impulse. Sex in this book isn’t sexy, but a dirty, lethal contagion. Can it then still be called a work of pornography and judged on those terms? Then again, as I could not relate to the imagery used, especially in the sexual exploits, there is a huge part of the story that means nothing to me, and is thus viewed only as a bizarre perversion. I'm certain, however, that those who can relate to the imagery and objects will understand this work on a different level. Not necessarily a more wholesome level, but on a different sexual level. I mean, is it supposed to turn me on, if I read that a fictitious character has had sex? Or someone else, someone real (you, for example)? His next film was Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye released in 2003. Dennis Harvey, reviewing Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye in Variety said the film was “A punk-pornocopia equivalent to Last Year at Marienbad.”.

A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal, and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes. This sort of thing is probably happening all around the world now, as I write this and you read it. Think about it. But not for the purposes of sexual arousal (unless you’re a consenting adult).And this is where I struggle the most. Minds and bodies united in the desire to be freed from the impositions society's rules placed upon them forcefully impose their own desires upon a person whose mind is, if anything, simple and innocent. For Marcelle was, in a way, an innocent creature. Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. | Very fresh copies with the faintest touch of edgewear else fine -- illus. wraps. 20 x 13.5 cm. Two issues of promotional brochure/magazine dated 1953 and 1954 excerpting early Olympia titles, including Alexander Trocchi (writing as 'Frances Lengel')'s YOUNG ADAM and Georges Bataille (writing as 'Pierre Angelique')'s TALE OF SATISFIED DESIRE (i.e. STORY OF THE EYE). At least three issues seem to have been published -- Kearney lists 'The New Stripteaser' (1954), which sounds like #2, the present pair likely being #1 and #3 (neither however is listed in Kearney.). these are not spoilers. dear reader, you are dealing with abstractions. abstractions cannot be spoiled. you can look at them and your eye will see what it wants to see. Over at The Reader’s Room blog *, where they are ploughing through 1001 Books you must Read Before the Next Global Pandemic Overtakes Us, Bookworm wrote :

The Eye is a 2008 supernatural horror- thriller film directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, scripted by Sebastian Gutierrez, and starring Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola, and Rade Šerbedžija. It is a remake of the Pang Brothers' 2002 film of the same name. Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. | A very fresh copy with the faintest touch of edgewear else fine -- colour photogr. wraps. Excellent condition, no fading and virtually no wear. [64 pp.] Promotional brochure/magazine excerpting early Olympia publications -- at least three seem to have been issued in 1953-1954. This issue -- apparently the first -- excerpts five Olympia books, including Bataille (writing as 'Pierre Angelique')'s TALE OF SATISFIED DESIRE (i.e. STORY OF THE EYE); Henry Miller's PLEXUS; Cleland's FANNY HILL; Sade's BEDROOM PHILOSOPHY and JUSTINE. Text is liberally interspersed with b&w pin-up photos of naked ladies. To say it’s rather pervy would be to say the pope is a bit of a Catholic, or that God is really quite potent. Is it pornography? Undoubtedly yes, but it is also a romance, a dark, twisted, forbidden romance with an ending I could not imagine in my wildest dreams.The old definition of “obscene” was that sexually explicit material had a “tendency to deprave and corrupt” the reader. you read the book but it is not a book, not really. it is a thesis. what is its purpose? to lay bare the world, i suppose. each act, each object, each symbol and metaphor... open to your own interpretation. come one, come all! cum! cum! cum! yawn. i know the world already. eye am a camera. A project by: James Boatwright, Brian Clark, Liz Chow, D. Olivier Delrieu-Schulze, Isaac Johnson, Geoff Krawczyk, Josh Parkins, Will Quintana, Scott Ries, Anna Scime, Neil Terry & 404 error

We had abandoned the real world, the one made up solely of dressed people, and the time elapsed since then was already so remote as to seem almost beyond reach. Our personal hallucination now developed as boundlessly as perhaps the total nightmare of human society, for instance, with earth, sky, and atmosphere. The problem with "pornography" as literature or art, or even as comedy, is that any criticism one raises to it will be seen by its advocates as prudery, whether that is the case or not. In the movie Weekend Corrine, the female lead, recounts an orgy she participated in, many of the details of which are derived from the first two chapters of Story of the Eye. [3]Of course, nowadays, it’s much more complicated, because people have worked out a way to go to work and read porn at the same time. It’s called a cell phone. In 1994, while in High School at Abington Friends, he formed “ARMcinema25.com”, a company devoted to producing avant-garde movies. Alternatively, sexual arousal is OK, but the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter is evil/ immoral/ naughty? American indie pop band of Montreal references this book in the song "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" from the album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?. [4]