Histoire de l'œil

Story of the Eye

Author

Georges Bataille

Language

French

Year

1928

Country

France

Genre

Novella / Light Novel

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Story of the Eye is a 1928 novella written by Georges Bataille as Lord Auch, 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.