A review by alecorodri
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

It's just so... weighed down, like when you have to take a shit. That's basically it. Sex and urine and corpses and torture and globes. Yawn. Sorry to sound pretentious. I sat through it and didn't clutch my pearls (my first work as an author, if you want to take a look at my page, deals with similar themes, I can appreciate body horror and depravity), because it carried no hint or whisper of beauty. Luis Buñuel ;) did the eye better in Un Chien Andalou. How many books out there gross us out without that sliver of beauty to really arrest us? Anyone can roll around in the pigsty. Finding the tiniest of feathers from a Seraph in the sty is what makes the art. Coward. And, the author's note is... why would you admit that you can't see past your trauma, Bataille? So as to make fun of us for giving you attention. Ah, yeah, got it. Heh, you sly fox. You made your moniez and are so pre-war French. Bataille's influences are many of my influences as well. So, I get him. You know your own kind. And, it just sucks that all the insight he could have offered in a piece like this he purposely held back.