Story of the Eye (Penguin Modern Classics)

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In 1994, while in High School at Abington Friends, he formed “ARMcinema25.com”, a company devoted to producing avant-garde movies.

Andrew Repasky McElhinney is an American film producer born in Philadelphia in 1979. He grew up in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania and lived in Manhattan in New York City in the late 1990s while earning an English literature / Cultural studies degree from The New School for Social Research before returning to his home city in 2000. It is important that the correct amount of light enters the eye. If too much light is let into the eye retinal damage could occur. However, if too little light passes into the eye then sight becomes difficult. An operatic, feminist re-interpretation of Georges Bataille's classic 1920's transgressive novella 'Story of The Eye'. PDF / EPUB File Name: Story_of_the_Eye_-_Georges_Bataille.pdf, Story_of_the_Eye_-_Georges_Bataille.epub The iconography and use of metaphor is worth commenting on here. It’s not just eyes that are the focus of sexually perverse obsession here, but really any globular object, such as an egg or a bull’s testes, which are to be fondled, inserted in various orifices, digested. The latter are of course primarily associated with reproduction, with birth, and thus sex. The frequent, compulsive urinating as a way of sexual gratification is to be linked to Bataille’s blind syphilitic father (the story of which he relates in his afterword), who because of his excruciating condition often had to urinate in public. When doing so, his milky eyes would often stare vacantly in the air above. The inclusion of these acts of urination clearly was a way of metamorphosing this painful personal memory into an almost playful erotic fantasy, turning it from something embarrassing into something jubilant. Birth, sex, death, the intimate relationship between them, these three core themes absolutely infuse the work.

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If you enjoyed Story of the Eye, you might like Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. It doesn’t sound like any bike ride I ever went on in my youth. Also, it doesn’t sound like it makes any kind of sense to me.

This edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'. of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

Roland Barthes published the original French version of his essay "Metaphor of the Eye" in Bataille's own journal Critique, shortly after Bataille's death in 1962. Barthes' analysis focuses on the centrality of the eye to this series of vignettes, and notices that it is interchangeable with eggs, bulls' testicles and other ovular objects within the narrative. He also traces a second series of liquid metaphors within the text, which flow through tears, cat's milk, egg yolks, frequent urination scenes, blood and semen. His next film was Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye released in 2003. Dennis Harvey, reviewing Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye in Variety said the film was “A punk-pornocopia equivalent to Last Year at Marienbad.”. Eye sea what you did there) θα πω ότι σαν ιστορία ήταν τρελή αλλά την απόλαυσα ξέροντας ότι αυτά που διάβασα δεν είναι ρεαλισμός.

As we move from solid to liquid, symbolically, throughout the novel, we witness degradation, depravity, debauchery, damnation and catastrophe. It's not just personal, it's institutional. Although I devour trashy reads from horror to pulp to romance, I am not a fan of erotica. A vanilla erotic romance is ok, but pure pornography rarely moves me in a sensual manner. I was bored senseless by Anne Rice’s forays into erotica. It’s always the same repetitive theatrics in these books: sex in this orifice, sex in that orifice, put this object into this orifice, place that object into that orifice. To complete this survey of the high summits of my personal obscenity, I must add a final connection I made in regard to Marcelle. It was one of the most disconcerting, and I did not arrive at it until the very end. It is impossible for me to say positively that Marcelle is basically identical with my mother. Such a statement would actually be, if not false, then at least exaggerated. Anyway, I’m still confused. I don’t see what the big deal is. If it’s legal to do it, why is it illegal to read about it?

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I ventured to explain such extraordinary relations by assuming a profound region of my mind, where certain images coincide, the elementary ones, the completely obscene ones, i.e., the most scandalous, precisely those on which the conscious floats indefinitely, unable to endure them without an explosion or aberration. Though a narrator briefly intones a few sentences about Bataille and his work, there is no dialogue among the principals. Words have been banished from this privileged space, where, true to the work’s title, the eye is the protagonist. We look, but we also look away, and Mr. McElhinney wants to make us aware of our conflicting impulses. Every spectator will have his or her own limits, and when we instinctively glance away, we learn where those limits are.