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Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye

Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye is a 2004 experimental film adaptation of the 1928 novel Story of the Eye by the French writer Georges Bataille.


Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

In addition, the album namechecks many things commonly associated with glam rock, such as drugs, art and fashion; "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" alludes to Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and specifically mentions Georges Bataille's novella Story of the Eye.


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Institute of Cultural Inquiry

Bataille's Eye & ICI Field Notes 4 (1995): an examination of philosopher Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye, focusing on the publication and translation history of Bataille's text.

Irene's Cunt

The first edition was illustrated with etchings by André Masson which were aesthetically very similar to those of Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye.