Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Story of the Eye by Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Georges Bataille

28 reviews

seabroom's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Excrement, and Sexual content

spraffy's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, and Violence

vacationrick's review against another edition

fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual assault

axel_p's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

This book was absolutely hilarious

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Gore, Murder, Pedophilia, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Torture, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

_blue_linckia's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I would recommend it to fans of Clive Barker or Hellraiser.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Blood, Physical abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, Excrement, Murder, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Alcohol

mamacroonie's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Read this to understand why Bjork exalted it so much. I don’t think I appreciated it as much as she did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Incest, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Racism

rosekent's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

This book is beyond NSFW but it's not exactly a one-handed affair, either-- reads less like a novel and more like a piss-soaked fever dream of the most deranged sex scenes someone could conjure up. I wonder if audiences 100 years ago had to stop and laugh at what can feel like gratuitous obscenity, but ultimately I enjoyed the ride and found the glimmers of Bataille's mysticism quite haunting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Excrement, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Stalking, Mental illness, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

tofi_15's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Rape, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Death, Animal death, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Suicide, and Physical abuse

zmorgason's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Rape, and Gore

corvuscorax's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

3.5

And it struck me that death was the sole outcome of my erection, and if Simone and I were killed, then the universe of our unbearable personal vision was certain to be replaced by the pure stars, fully unrelated to any external hazes and realizing in a cold state, without human delays or detours, something that strikes me as the goal of my sexual licentiousness: a geometric incandescence (among other things, the coinciding point of life and death, being and nothingness), perfectly fulgurating.

This was one of the books that push you to reconsider your interpretation of art, vulgarity and how the two can (or can't?) combine. It was a tough read to be sure, but there was a certain aspect of playfulness generated by the sheer absurdity of the scenarios that were being presented. The essay at the end felt like a breath of fresh air, but then the almost mathematical correspondence that Bataille wanted to establish between details of his biography and elements of the metaphorical chains in the book made me feel uneasy, because they so contradicted my aversion to authorial "implication", especially when it comes to such intense and almost grotesquely exaggerated scenarios. It felt as though putting a real, living, breathing author next to the text would've been an insult to both.

Sontag's essay was interesting, but I found Barthes's takes to be more substantive and truly add to my experience of the book. This is one to chew on for a while, I think.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Murder, Vomit, Violence, Death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Rape

Minor: Suicide