Story of the Eye

Story of the Eye

Cover of the French edition
Author	Georges Bataille
Original title	Histoire de l'œil
Translator	Joachim Neugroschel
Language	French
Genre	Erotic fiction
Published	1928 (in French) 1978 (Urizen Books NY, in English. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel)
Publication place	France
Media type	Print
Pages	127 (Penguin Books edition)
ISBN	0-14-018009-5

Story of the Eye (French: 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][failed verification]}