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

By Patrick Ffrench and frenchPatrick 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197262007
• ISBN13: 9780197262009
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"