Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille
1928
Bataille was a French intellectual and philospher, influential to the school of poststructuralism. Story of the Eye is a rambling porn of two teens doing increasingly nasty sex stuff. No fancy French philosophy, just peeing and fapping and screwing.
Two teens fool around, involving another teen girl who goes insane and is institutionalized. They break into the asylum, do more sex stuff, and drive her to suicide. The couple go to Spain where they get horny on bullfighting and hook up with a sugar daddy. They bang a priest to death and sail off into the distance, the end.
It's pure nastiness with no philosophical message beyond maybe "screw your morality". It's as philosophical as GG Allin. This doesn't stop eggheads from declaring it's not porn and worthy of deep critical analysis, because there's a central theme of soft round stuff, from eggs to bull testicles to eyeballs.
Let me put some patches on my tweed jacket, grow out a goatee, and light my pipe. Yes. Yes, those things are similar, and are all in the story. Mostly as ben wa balls.
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