by Georges Bataille · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472233102
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Story of the Eye is considered Georges Bataille's masterpiece of erotic literature. In this novel, the author's surrealist prose is united with his obsession with sex, death, and faith. Through a simple plot, Bataille relates images such as the eye, the egg, and the genitals of the bull, revealing their most revolting erotic content. The young Simone embodies unconscious desire and sin, transgressing sexual and moral norms, and experiencing a pleasure that carries a maximum punishment: death. This Spanish edition includes an essay by Mario Vargas Llosa entitled 'The Glacial Pleasure' and illustrations by Hans Bellmer.
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. His work would prove influential on subsequent schools of philosophy and social theory, including post-structuralism.
