Georges Bataille

my prof told me to read the accursed share and i made a joke about story of the eye

I found Story of the Eye endearing, cute, and kinda funny

why? come up with an interesting question

>>8584769
Story of the eye was pretty cool. Is there any kind of real meaning behind it at all or is it basically just depraved shit for the sake of being depraved?

>>8585106
https://uglywords.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/roland-barthes-the-metaphor-of-the-eye/
maybe this

Why are the French so gratuitously perverse?

Read that Barthes essay. I think Bataille produced the best realized work of the surrealists

His essay on Proust is fantastic, everyone who reads Proust should read it. Talks about how good and evil mutually constitute themselves and so on, really cool stuff. Going to start Visions of Excess soon very excited.

Anyone read Mother or Blue of Noon? What were they like?

>>8585534
Blue of Noon is his best. Lovely stretch of bile-filled surrealism, less gross and edgy than Story of the Eye. It actually has some soul to it, particularly in the narrator's weird scenes with the ugly Marxist chick he sort of lovehates.

>>8585146
>gratuitously
I guess you haven't read Bataille.