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The Cut/Reading Bataille's Histoire De L'Oeil: Reading Bataille's Histoire De L'Il (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs)
The Cut/Reading Bataille's Histoire De L'Oeil Reading Bataille's Histoire De L'Il - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs Author:Patrick 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 th... more »e trajectories of structuralism and in the recent theorizations around his notion of the informe.« less