Is this a joke book or is there something I'm missing? Keep

Bataille is a brilliant genius guy and it's such a shame people read this tepid garbage out of historical context and think it's great on its own. It was maybe subversive or interesting or affirming of suppressed desires when Foucault read it and felt that it gave him a license to try out the old rusty trombone at the bathhouse, but now it's just fucking boring.

It's 90% women who read it, too. Women who think they're interesting because they read Story of the Eye.

>>9952843
What's worth reading of Bataille? And does this book have no redeeming features in this day and age?

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I just honestly don't understand it

>>9952822

I dunno why you guys don't seem to like the Story of the Eye. I read it ten years ago and enjoyed it pretty much, just because it's disgusting and full of sexual perversion. Then I read "Blue of Noon" and felt roughly the same, except it's less sexual, more elaborate, probably 'better' from a neutral or literary point of view.
Much later I read *The accursed Share* and realized Bataille was also a more than decent thinker.
Definitely a cool guy, even if it's 90% women that read him (the same could be said about David Lynch's movies for instance).

Yeah I read it but it sucked ass. Very degenerate.

Prose is so so but, yeah

>>9952919
ive noticed this too, why are there so many bataille fangirls? is it just 50 shades of grey except for girls with rym accounts and tumblrs with edgy selfies of themselves?

Don't take it seriously, OP. It's really just a list of perversions and degeneracy, and should be read as such. There's really nothing to understand.

Only women take shit like that seriously.

I just fapped to a massage porn video where a guy massaged the girl. I pretended the girl was my gf.

>>9952994
>he doesn't pretend he's the girl

help

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>>9952843
>It's 90% women who read it, too. Women who think they're interesting because they read Story of the Eye.

>>9952822
OP, read Bataille's writing on sexuality, and at least some of the Accursed share

>>9952822
I found it to be an endearing and slightly perverted coming of age story. It was cute

Ever since reading it I've wanted to commit sinful acts of sodomy and fornication in a church

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>>9953230
>slightly perverted

>>9952919
No no, it's more than that, I guess.
But to be honest, while being a fan of both Bataille's philosophy and erotic writings, I can see no relation between them. There's a few notes on sexuality in The accursed share, but I should probably read his stuff on eroticism.
>>9953225
Btw, are his other essays as excellent as the accursed share ? Something tells me "On eroticism" is for girls with issues. (Reading, for a girl, is already an issue)