The Story of the Eye - Translated by Hermes Publica - Cover illustrated by Robert Jordan G.: (Hermes Publica Classics) - Couverture souple

Bataille, Georges

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798243601382

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

This may be the most disturbing story you will ever come across, and it included deeply disturbing and sexual content.

A nameless narrator and the insatiable Simone descend into an eroticism so absolute that every boundary dissolves. Eggs, eyes, milk, urine, blood, testicles, the open sky of the bullring, the locked wardrobe of a madhouse, the consecrated host, a priest’s strangled throat, a gouged eyeball slipping between moist thighs—each object and orifice becomes the site of a sacred transgression. What begins as adolescent games of exhibition and fluid-soaked ecstasy accelerates into a metaphysical pornography that devours the distinction between pleasure and death, blasphemy and prayer, the human body and the cosmic void.

Written in 1928 under the pseudonym Lord Auch, this incandescent text is not a novel of desire—it is desire itself, stripped to bone and lightning. Bataille does not seduce the reader; he forces the reader to confront the ecstatic horror that lies just beneath the skin of ordinary life. Once you open the eye, you cannot close it again. A forbidden classic. A philosophical detonation. A book that stares back.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798243601382
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: G Robert Jordan
• Nombre de pages: 118
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg