Reviews tagging Rape

Story of the Eye, by Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Georges Bataille

14 reviews

tcgarback's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 
Critical Score: B
Personal Score: C+
Reading Experience: 📘📘📘(3/5)

Grabbed my attention at the start and the end, lost me in the middle. Altogether too involved in its own symbolism and musings on agony and pleasure. But this is still a bomb of immorality that is as courageous as it is sleazy—as it’s meant to be, so really, they’re the same thing here.

This is fascinating to me as a piece of transgressive literature, but it’s not something that at all moved me or, given the stuff I’ve read in recent years, shocked me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Rape, Torture, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Death, Violence, Vomit, Gore, Murder, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

kattrent's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.25

Wtf did I just read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Murder

yutrobog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Injury/injury detail, Sexism, Cursing, Death, Grief, Torture, Violence, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Suicide, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

tysuckz's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

I have to be honest and say that I didn't quite get the book in the same way everyone else seems to have and I thought the constant referring to have "raped" such and such was a bit distressing. I am not entirely sure if the word raped was used in the sense that it is used now, or if the author utilised it to describe having sex with Simone in a more dominant way? I feel as though he regularly used the word raped to describe having sex with others and whilst I don't doubt that the character was a rapist, I do think this word was used differently to how it would now be used. But maybe that's just me! 

Referring back to the not getting the book- I completely and utterly didn't and thought it was honestly so absurd. I did end up reading the little post-text , the completely freaky nature made more sense. I also enjoyed reading that info about the authors life! 

Having said that, it was VERY short, and VERY weird!! normally look for weird in books, but this was like next level freakishness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Rape, and Suicide

tailwhip's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

0.5

nao sei dizer se as falas do autor no final piorou o livro esclareceu ele ou os dois ao mesmo tempo..! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, Death, Excrement, Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Injury/injury detail, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Ableism, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, War, and Abandonment

revolution666's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Cursing, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Murder, Rape, Violence, Child death, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/injury detail, and Alcohol

keerak's review against another edition

dark emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Mental illness, Gore, Excrement, Blood, Rape, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Death, and Body horror

samuelh2020's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Excrement, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

keona_aw's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Racism

halflight's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Definitely an experience. Definitely something. In essence, Story of the Eye is a semi-surrealist stream of consciousness about debauchery for debauchery's sake, circling back over and over and over again to urine and eggs and testicles and so much...SO much weird sex. I find it VERY funny that this was Bataille's first work after leaving the Catholic church.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Sexism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Vomit and Racism

The book is entirely about sex. Lots of urine. Several instances of rape. Two instances of fairly graphic necrophilia. Things are put into certain holes that should NOT be put into those holes