Story of the Eye

After reading that this was Bjork's favorite book when I was 14, I set out on a search for it. I could never find it any book store because it's not really a book, it's only about 60 pages, and places like Barnes and Noble never carried it. After a while, I forgot about it, but then I found it at a Barnes and Noble strangely enough. It took me about 30 minutes to get through this book which involved a few highly grotesque occurrences involving a few motifs: eggs, eyes, and urine. A number of scenes from this book were actually used in the movie "Weekend" by Jean-Luc Goddard, in only one scene, where a woman wearing lingerie describes some menage-a-trois she was involved in a sort of flat voiced crime drama manner. This was an incredibly influential piece of literature, and Georges Bataille an incredibly influential thinker. He does a great essay on Nietzche that I read, and other fine things that I have not yet read, like, The Solar Anus. Story of the Eye only becomes really clear once you learn about Bataille and his philosophy, his obsession with eroticism and the pineal eye, images that haunt him and will stay with you after reading this book. There are about five or more editions of this book, so they're all slightly different, all good.