Title: L'Abbé C (The Abbot C)
Author: Georges Bataille
Translator: Philip A. Facey
Original Publication date: 1950
Edition: Marion Boyars
# of pages: 158

My one sentence summary: this book isn't worth your time.
( Read on for my reasons. )

Title: Story of the Eye
Author: Georges Bataille
Published in: 1928

Summary from Goodreads: Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing." Bataille has been ( Read more... )