Story of the Eye (Penguin Modern Classics)

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As is probably abundantly clear by now, The Story of the Eye remains a puzzling mystery, probably forever unsolved. Is its message, if any, one of joyous liberation or one of profound pessimism? I’m honestly not certain. It can very well be both. I do know one thing though, which is that me and Bataille are not done yet. It'll be a most glorious madness for sure. To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have gelded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on condition that they be insipid. I wonder why it is such a big no-no with some people. What are they thinking? What do they want us to think?

This sort of thing is probably happening all around the world now, as I write this and you read it. Think about it. But not for the purposes of sexual arousal (unless you’re a consenting adult). This book is disgusting, nihilistic filth. However, it has no pretensions of being erotic. The Story of the Eye is designed to engage the senses in an offensive way. It is transgressive, postmodernism, and being so, I should have detested this. However I found this to be a more honest piece of writing than many other books I’ve come upon.

The Eye is a 2008 supernatural horror- thriller film directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, scripted by Sebastian Gutierrez, and starring Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola, and Rade Šerbedžija. It is a remake of the Pang Brothers' 2002 film of the same name. Apparently he had a tragic childhood. Also apparently he gets thrown in with all of those other terrifying French thinkers like Baudrillard, Derrida, Barthes, Lacan and so on. But this novella was enough and too much for me. I have a naïve idea that eroticism and porn should in some way evoke pleasure in the reader. I know, I’m hopeless. So, in the novel, Bataille achieves a transformation, an exchange, a substitution, pursuant to which deformity becomes lewd, and lewdness becomes deformed. Well, η Σιμόν η πρωταγωνίστρια προς το τέλος της ιστορίας ήθελε να της σερβίρουν ωμά αρχίδια ταύρου ενώ παρακολουθούσε ταυρομαχίες, τις θύμιζαν αυγά. Και μένα τα τέτοια του σκύλου μου, αυγά ορτυκιού μου θύμισαν. Fairfax, Daniel (17 March 2017). "Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)". Senses of Cinema . Retrieved 8 March 2019.

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.”.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. The old definition of “obscene” was that sexually explicit material had a “tendency to deprave and corrupt” the reader. Alba spent much time with the blind soprano Jessica Bachicha to learn about how blind people lived, used the white cane, read Braille, etc.

Indeed, staring oneself blind on them would form a quite superficial reading of the text, and does it quite the disservice to my mind. I know this, because initially I was guilty of it myself. Mea culpa. The subtext, the philosophical underpinning someway, somehow escaped my notice, hidden as it was beneath the various, lurid descriptions of the pleasures of the flesh. In the spirit of full transparency I here offer the brief thoughts that I, in a state of slight disappointment scribbled down just moments after finishing the novella: 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'.Wendy R. Williams (2008-01-29). Jessica Alba Talks About 'The Eye'. New York Cool. Retrieved 2010-11-28. 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. Rose: I guess it could take less if I stopped playing hard to get. THE GOLDEN GIRLS The Depths of Depravity I just completed a second, more thorough reading of this short book. This reading was done over a period of about two weeks, reading slowly one section at a time, trying to look at the book not merely as a reader but from a more philosophical and psychological standpoint, trying both to appreciate and to understand this unusual work.

The iris, the coloured part of the eye, varies in colour from person to person. These colour differences are determined by the amount of melanin present in the iris. Melanin is a type of insoluble pigment present in all types of animal life.Video by: James Boatwright, Brian Clark, Liz Chow, Isaac Johnson, Geoff Krawczyk, Josh Parkins, Scott Ries, Anna Scime, & Neil Terry If you enjoyed Story of the Eye, you might like Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.