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- catalog abstract ""Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that 'the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing.' Bataille has been called a 'metaphysician of evil,' specializing in blasphemy, profanation, and horror. Story of the Eye, written in 1928, is his best-known work; it is unashamedly surrealistic, both disgusting and fascinating, and packed with seemingly endless violations. It's something of an underground classic, rediscovered by each new generation. Most recently, the Icelandic pop singer Björk Guðdmundsdóttir cites Story of the Eye as a major inspiration: she made a music video that alludes to Bataille's erotic uses of eggs, and she plans to read an excerpt for an album. Warning: Story of the Eye is graphically sexual, and is only for adults who are not easily offended."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Histoire de l'œil. English".
- catalog contributor b3035865.
- catalog created "1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1987.".
- catalog description ""Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that 'the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing.' Bataille has been called a 'metaphysician of evil,' specializing in blasphemy, profanation, and horror. Story of the Eye, written in 1928, is his best-known work; it is unashamedly surrealistic, both disgusting and fascinating, and packed with seemingly endless violations. It's something of an underground classic, rediscovered by each new generation. Most recently, the Icelandic pop singer Björk Guðdmundsdóttir cites Story of the Eye as a major inspiration: she made a music video that alludes to Bataille's erotic uses of eggs, and she plans to read an excerpt for an album. Warning: Story of the Eye is graphically sexual, and is only for adults who are not easily offended."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "PART 1. THE TALE -- 1. The Cat's Eye -- 2. The Antique Wardrobe -- 3. Marcelle's Smell -- 4. A Sunspot -- 5. A Trickle of Blood -- 6. Simone -- 7. Marcelle -- 8. The Open Eyes of a Dead Woman -- 9. Lewd Animals -- 10. Granero's Eye -- 11. Under the Sun of Seville -- 12. Simone's Confession and Sir Edmund's Mass -- 13. The Legs of the Fly -- PART 2. COINCIDENCES -- W.C. -- Outline of a Sequel to Story of the Eye.".
- catalog extent "viii, 103 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0872862097 (pbk.) :".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "1987.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco : City Lights Books,".
- catalog subject "843/.912 19".
- catalog subject "Erotic stories, French Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "PQ2603.A695 H4813 1987".
- catalog tableOfContents "PART 1. THE TALE -- 1. The Cat's Eye -- 2. The Antique Wardrobe -- 3. Marcelle's Smell -- 4. A Sunspot -- 5. A Trickle of Blood -- 6. Simone -- 7. Marcelle -- 8. The Open Eyes of a Dead Woman -- 9. Lewd Animals -- 10. Granero's Eye -- 11. Under the Sun of Seville -- 12. Simone's Confession and Sir Edmund's Mass -- 13. The Legs of the Fly -- PART 2. COINCIDENCES -- W.C. -- Outline of a Sequel to Story of the Eye.".
- catalog title "Histoire de l'œil. English".
- catalog title "Story of the eye / by Lord Auch ; translated by Joachim Neugroschel.".
- catalog type "Horror fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Translations. fast".
- catalog type "text".