Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Story of the Eye
Book Review: Grotesque and Astonishing
Summary: 5 Stars
George Bataille's brief Sade-esque novella is a mordantly brilliant dip into the post-Nietzschen world modernity. The Story of the Eye is a pornographic disintegration of the Western ethical code. It is both magnificent and foul; a more daring and original work than his later philosophy/anthropology. A seminal piece of 20th century literature; although it was published well before the cultural abominations of our current nihilism, we are still not ready for this bleak and punkish work of literary debauchery.Book Review: Grotesque and Disturbing...A Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
What more can you say about Bataille's great contribution to surrealism? Read it, and be wrenched from your complacency. Surrender your prejudices, shatter your preconceptions, get sick, be healed.Book Review: Haunting Endeavor Plunging Across Literary Boundaries (featuring medicore storytelling)
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, chances are probably good that if you're reading this then you've heard of the classic erotic Story of the Eye. It's sheer outrageous absurdity in the form of sensation overload. Pornographic endeavors of the most grotesque, extraordinary, and perverse leads the narrative (i. e. bulls and eggs) and drives the main themes straight to the point. Mr. Bataille's work is mostly driven on his philosophy that, like de Sade, focuses on violence, death, isolation, irrationality versus rationality (the will to life of Schoepenhauer, and the spirit of Nietzsche) and of course passion (through sex and desire). At times the book was arousing, at times disgusting, but inevitably the story becomes so numbing that I lost sense of my own human characteristics. If that sounds like a stretch to you, read the book and see what you think. This book is a shocker that disables social and literary boundaries, though the form of the book (13(?) chapters, linear narrative) is only clouded over by some poor narration. For fans of Henry Miller, Marquis de Sade, Anais Nin's erotica, and the Story of O, check this out, but be weary that this book is more meta than you might care for.
Book Review: How can anyone like this book?
Summary: 1 Stars
This book has no artistic value whatsoever. You may as well buy a porn magazine. Even if you can get past all the disgusting sexual details, there is no substance to the story. It's extremely disturbing and twisted. I felt guilty just reading it. Don't buy this book if you have a weak stomach or if you like the books you read to have a plot or some kind of meaning.Book Review: If you like Bjork, she reccomends this
Summary: 4 Stars
okay, I'm not your avid reader but I've read many of books, and this one stook out the most. Its extreme sexual content about a boys love affair with a girl which gets out of hand. The main reason I had bought this was due to my curiousity about the book when singer Bjork had made reference to it in one of her interviews. It surprised me alot, and had me raise a brow about what direction this book was going. Weird but compelling.