# Story of the Eye

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- Authors: [Georges Bataille](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-bataille)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-04-26
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation

## Description

Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

## Editions

### Story of the Eye

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-367-4
- Published: 2013-09-26
- Language: en_GB

### Story of the Eye

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-538-5
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2001-04-26
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Η ιστορία του ματιού](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-bataille/el/i-istoria-tou-matiou) (el_GR)
- [Historia del ojo](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-bataille/es/historia-del-ojo) (es_ES)
- [Histoire de l'œil](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-bataille/fr/histoire-de-loeil) (fr_FR)
- [História do olho](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-bataille/pt/historia-do-olho) (pt_BR)
- [Історія ока](https://www.bookquiver.com/zhorzh-batai/uk/istoriia-oka) (uk_UA)