English language
Published Feb. 16, 2001
Georges Bataille: Story of the Eye (2001)
English language
Published Feb. 16, 2001
Story of the Eye (French: L'histoire de l'œil) is a 1928 novella written by Georges Bataille that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers, including an early depiction of omorashi fetishism in Western literature. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits.