Story of the Eye

Story of the Eye
Cover of the French edition
AuthorGeorges Bataille
Original titleL'histoire de l'œil
TranslatorJoachim Neugroschel
LanguageFrench
GenreErotic fiction
Published
  • 1928 (in French)
  • 1978 (Urizen Books NY, in English. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel.)
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint
Pages127 (Penguin Books edition)
ISBN0-14-018009-5

Story of the Eye (French: L'histoire de l'œil) is a 1928 novella written by Georges Bataille as Lord Auch (literally, Lord "to the shithouse" — "auch" being short for "aux chiottes," slang for telling somebody off by sending him to the toilet), that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers, including an early depiction of omorashi fetishism in Western literature. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits. In 1940 an edition of Histoire de l’œil was illustrated by Hans Bellmer. Histoire de l'œil entered the public domain on January 1, 2024.[1]