Histoire de l'œil

A sixteen-year-old boy falls madly in love with the young Simone, and as they indulge in inventive sexual games, the two teenagers draw an easily influenced girl named Marcelle into their debauchery. Now as a trio, they go ever further into frenzy and transgression, as if spellbound by their senses. A psychoanalytic interpretation will shed light on the story in the end, offering a second reading of this unique text.
Published clandestinely in 1928 under a pseudonym, this work is as unsettling as it is intriguing. The reader is dazzled and blinded by a style that defies classification: neither erotic, nor pornographic, nor even anything in between. The Story of the Eye—or what separates horror from the sublime?