Story of the Eye. Story of the Eye (French: L'histoire de l'oeil) is a 1928 novella by Georges Bataille that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers.
It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits. Penguin Books edition Plot summary[edit] Story of the Eye consists of several vignettes, centered around the sexual passion existing between the unnamed late adolescent male narrator and Simone, his primary female partner. Within this episodic narrative two secondary figures emerge: Marcelle, a mentally ill sixteen-year-old girl who comes to a sad end, and Lord Edmund, a voyeuristic English émigré aristocrat.
On Nietzsche. Georges Bataille - À perte de vue #1/5 Michael Taussig. What is An Essay? Sacrifice and Responsibility. 2010 Georges Bataille : Literature And Evil Georges Bataille. Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, anthropology, philosophy, economy, sociology and history of art.
Eroticism, sovereignty, and transgression are at the core of his writings. Life and work[edit]