The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil

by Patrick ffrench

Patrick ffrench gives an imaginative theoretical reading of the unsettling masterpiece, Histoire de l'oeil (1928), by the French writer Georges Bataille, recognized now as a major figure in twentieth-century French literature. Bataille's erotic and disturbing text is a traumatic event in the
history of modernity, provoking critical moments in the trajectories of structuralism and in the recent theorizations around his notion of the informe .

Genres: Theory

184 pages, Hardcover

First published March 23, 2000