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Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch

Bataille`s first novel, published under the pseudonym `Lord Auch`, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, 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. Shocking and sacreligious, “Story of the Eye” is the fullest expression of Bataille`s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.