<p>A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille''s <i>Story of the Eye </i>was the <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i> of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal, and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes.<br><br>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 sacrilegious, <i>Story of the Eye</i> 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.<br><br>This edition also includes Susan Sontag''s superb study of pornography as art, ''The Pornographic Imagination'', as wel
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Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents....
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Linking the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, this title offers an array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as includes comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa.
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Erotismen forstås som en bekreftelse av livet inn i døden. For bokas forfatter kjennetegnes den moderne verden av at den har fortrengt den sakrale sfæren. Det eneste uttrykk overskridelsen kan få i en profan verden, er gjennom poesiens språk. Med...
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<i>L''Abb¿</i> is a shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is...
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