Story of the Eye

Uncommon card · No. 120946

Story of the Eye (French: Histoire de l'œil) is a 1928 novella written by Georges Bataille as Lord Auch (literally, Lord "to the shithouse" — "auch" being short for "aux chiottes", slang for telling somebody off by sending him to the toilet), that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers, including an early depiction of urolagnia fetishism in Western literature. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits. In 1940 an edition of Histoire de l'œil was illustrated by Hans Bellmer.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Georges Bataille, Public domain