{"product_id":"story-of-the-eye-by-georges-bataille","title":"'Story of the Eye' by Georges Bataille","description":"\u003cp\u003eBataille’s short, notorious novel, made up of an obsessive circulation of images (the eye, the egg, the sun) pushed through sex, violence, and sacrilege until they begin to collapse into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten under a pseudonym in 1928 and long treated as illicit or marginal, \u003cem data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"336\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eStory of the Eye\u003c\/em\u003e now sits more clearly as a key text in Bataille’s wider project: an attempt to locate experience at its limit, where desire becomes indistinguishable from transgression, and meaning breaks under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s not erotic in any conventional sense; it’s closer to a philosophical experiment conducted through the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin Modern Classics paperback edition (reprint; exact printing unspecified). Clean, presentable copy with light general wear; no major faults visible.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44398159757395,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-04-05T153913.394.png?v=1775367678","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/story-of-the-eye-by-georges-bataille","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}