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stolb's review against another edition
4.0
Prefácio bem interessante, tendo o autor relatado algumas tristes experiências com o pai cego e paraplégico e sua mãe perdida.
Livro bem à frente do seu tempo, com cenários vampirescos e personagens depravados, mas enigmáticos.
Livro bem à frente do seu tempo, com cenários vampirescos e personagens depravados, mas enigmáticos.
ezrasupremacy's review against another edition
2.0
no idea what i just read, but the concept of this having been written in 1928 is honestly the only thing that makes it halfway interesting, if it had been written recently i would definitely not have stuck it through lmao
vacationrick's review against another edition
fast-paced
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual assault
welovelizards's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Did exactly what it wanted to do, an incredibly fast read. Would be disgusting if it wasn't so repeatetive but in the context of it's origin it's super decent and shocking like how it was intended to be.
tashery's review against another edition
1.0
I don't even know where to start. First of all I'd like to give it zero stars. Or maybe minus five stars... I added it to my to-read shelf clearly purely going by the book cover art. It looked cool so I assumed it was a horror or thriller of some sort. First sentence in I realised it certainly was neither. But giving it the benefit of a doubt I pushed on.
Brief synopsis - two horny teenagers have disgusting (and I mean sick and downright nasty) sexual escapades. You couldn't even call it any type of erotica because the sex scenes were making me want to vomit. I'm not sure what this book was about, who it was written for or what the point of it was. It's like the author was completely sexually repressed and couldn't contain his sick fantasies any longer. They all came out one after another in a completely random and implausible way.
I'm just glad it was over in 60 pages and that I got the ebook for free.
Ugh.
Brief synopsis - two horny teenagers have disgusting (and I mean sick and downright nasty) sexual escapades. You couldn't even call it any type of erotica because the sex scenes were making me want to vomit. I'm not sure what this book was about, who it was written for or what the point of it was. It's like the author was completely sexually repressed and couldn't contain his sick fantasies any longer. They all came out one after another in a completely random and implausible way.
I'm just glad it was over in 60 pages and that I got the ebook for free.
Ugh.
blob's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
athousandgreatbooks's review
5.0
The young protagonist and his lovers Simone and Marcelle perform acts of depraved sexual lunacy, involving torture, sadism, rape and an obsession with eyeballs which culminates in the ultimate act of violence and debauched sexual expression. Through the story, the shock value of their acts climbs steeply up, but so does the author's reflection on his own obsession with the closeness of death, sex, and violence.
George Bataille's vision is relentless, erotic one time and plain gross the next, and then both simultaneously (not sure what it says about me). Though it will definitely be hard to stomach for some, none can question its literary value as being a 20th-century classic and a phenomenon unto its own. Delivered in a dreamlike and near-hallucinatory narrative, the language flows thick in the metaphorical landscape of eyes, eggs, urine, balls, sex, sperm, and naked fetishes, colouring the world in a magical realism yellowed with an imagination that is both brilliant and agitated.
Obscene, lewd, and absurd to the point of disbelief, Story of the Eye is a notorious piece of work. It's a short novella, so whatever excitement or dread you feel is not going to last long.
George Bataille's vision is relentless, erotic one time and plain gross the next, and then both simultaneously (not sure what it says about me). Though it will definitely be hard to stomach for some, none can question its literary value as being a 20th-century classic and a phenomenon unto its own. Delivered in a dreamlike and near-hallucinatory narrative, the language flows thick in the metaphorical landscape of eyes, eggs, urine, balls, sex, sperm, and naked fetishes, colouring the world in a magical realism yellowed with an imagination that is both brilliant and agitated.
Obscene, lewd, and absurd to the point of disbelief, Story of the Eye is a notorious piece of work. It's a short novella, so whatever excitement or dread you feel is not going to last long.
elisanolasco's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Truly nuts and gross but somehow hard to put down