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post yfw bataille is your elementary school librarian

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>> No.14824961

>>14824891
I can't for the life of me understand how Story of the Eye is his most famous writing. Is it because of the smut? Of the dirty and depraved sex?

I've read "Blue of Noon" and it's better in every way. "My mother" is even better than that.

Tell me /lit/, why do people enjoy it so?

>> No.14824982

>>14824961
I jerked off to it, and had many dreams after reading it were I was having dirty depraved sex with sweaty Simone.
Made me feel less alone, yet more so, as the only thing that I looked forward to was sleeping and dreaming of Simone, yet I was never sure if I actually would dream or not.
I am going to kill myself.

>> No.14825020

>>14824961
Probably has a lot to do with the reception: one of the first translated in English I believe (first by Olympia Press; then with a foreword by Susan Sontag), it caught on with the cool students in anglo humanities for its transgression, and yes, the fact it's porn, and that it's readily available from Penguin Books. I mean, who's reading Inner Experience?
I agree that My Mother is the better novel, Madame Edwarda the better smut (well contained in its brevity), Blue of Noon was a bit boring imo.

>> No.14825377

>>14825020
I don't know why, but Blue of Noon felt to me like a twisted version of the Sun also rises. I've read both a long time ago and I remember them both having a similar progression.
I may be mistaken though. I'll have to reread both at some point.

>> No.14825428

>>14824961
Its very memorable. I enjoyed it more than his other works.