Patrick ffrench has given us an imaginative theoretical reading of an unsettling masterpiece by the French writer Georges Bataille, recognized now as a major figure in twentieth-century French literature. The obscene, erotic, and disturbing text Histoire de l'oeil (1928) is a traumatic event in the history of modernity, and in the prehistory of literary theory, provoking critical moments in the trajectories of structuralism and in the recent theorizations around Bataille's notion of the informe.
- ISBN10 0197262007
- ISBN13 9780197262009
- Publish Date 1 June 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 196
- Language English