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Story of the Eye

Georges Bataille

144 pages

About this book

A pornographic fantasy in which 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.

Themes
Dark & BroodingStrange & UnsettlingSteamy & PassionatePhilosophy & Big IdeasSacred violenceErotic transgressionDeath driveTaboo dissolution
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