My Favorite Book: Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille BOOK REVIEW

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[@benwhitney7044]

If you haven't already a filmed or written an explanation on what happened to this project, I would love a video which outlines what happened to this screenplay. In an interview you did with Justin Odisho, you said this project was a giant colossal failure but a hell of a ride at the same time. I'd love to know more!

[@babytuckoo]

Yes! I would love to hear. Sad to hear that it didn’t work out but I’m sure it will make for a very interesting story

[@brianjanson3498]

He threw his money in the trash. This will never be a movie. It would make Pink Flamingos seem like high art.

[@valentinevalentine9690]

Oh wow pink flamingos not shyt

[@JustanamebroDK]

Nothing can motivate me to read books like you can. Your reviews just captivate me. Thank you.

[@Harbzilla27]

I read The Story of the Eye last night and the requisite essays (in the Penguin edish), and spent the better part of the night trying to explain to my friend in the bar that sense of "whahhh?" between yes and no, and obscenity and regularity, and eggs and bloodshot balls and toilets and moons. I'm not sure I understand, but I went to bed last night sure I was finished, and woke this morning peeling back the pages for answers. I'm grateful for this limbo, and for you steering me here.

[@wallijacanero1532]

I was searching documentaries about Bataille for my thesis, and just find out someone who understands, finally, what I'm thinking for years about this man. Thank you for this video.

[@CedricV77]

You got Christopher Doyle on board! That's insane. Good luck on the film and I would love to see it.

[@cfanwise2485]

You know how many people Doyle has said this to? Hahaha there isn't going to be a movie XD

[@leopailloux282]

Your french accent is pretty good! (as a French, my English sucks and I hope you will understand what I say below) I do research on Georges Bataille's Madame Edwarda and Story of the Eye at the french Unniversity and all you said in your video is true. When we read Bataille, we experience the freedom to feel something. the state of experimentation is a great part of Bataille's work. according to him, we have to try religion, eroticism (as an intellectual sex) and to feel ourself as human. here in France, we read him as Philosopher and Litterature, as you may know, we do a strict separation between these two discipline and because the erotiscism we don't read Bataille as much as we should. I hope people will read him, because he is all I think we need to read to feel litterature. He wrote an essay called litterature and evil: in fact litterature is the only discipline where you can study evil, and feel evil, and become a viewer of evil. you have to experiment evil to feel human. that's what we all do, and that's what make us close to the sacred.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Léo Pailloux Very interesting, thank you so much for commenting, Literature and Evil is a great essay - There's much to be said about it, more soon, thanks for watching!

[@kearl3490]

I would respectfully disagree. One can study, feel and become a viewer of evil by walking down skid row. One does not need to experiment evil to feel human, humanity is evil. Evil is only close to the "sacred" as the Anti-Christ is as close to Christ. One must choose which "sacred" to follow. Paedophilia never did a thing for me, except to teach me what is truly evil. The baby is divine. The raper of the aforesaid is not "sacred", unless you're an extremely sick fuck.

[@seanharrington3542]

I read that book in high school because I read an interview with bjork where she's names it as the book that saved her from thinking she was crazy

[@mandy2914]

that’s why i read it!

[@Arginne]

She is crazy

[@AlienFetus]

This is the most powerful video I've ever seen in the entirety of KZbin, ever. I'm currently writing a 2-piece novella while researching for a literary theory I'm developing, or trying to, based on Deleuze's thought. This video alone made me reconsider at least half of my plans of work and methodologies, which are now reforming into including the thought of Bataille (whom Deleuze disagreed a lot). After reading Bataille and researching more into it, I found myself not a Deleuzian anymore, but someone that found some kind of glister, a new voice arising from a possible harmony between the two as my own, because, man, I tell you, your passion made me order books from and on Bataille. I hadn't known about Bataille before and I know about Deleuze (that is only about now becoming sort of a big figure). Your work with this video and with your movie is probably the most inspiring thing I've seen this year and I hope I can be part of it somehow too, even if by distant contributions. My novellas and meta-theoretical approach to literature will now include Bataille (because there are problems with posstmodern pragmatism, now I know) and I'll make sure to include at least one quote from this video in the finished thesis (not even caring if I have to change the entire argumentative form to quote KZbin videos and add public web links in the bibliography). I'm subscribing to your Patreon and gomping on everything. I know I don't have to say this, but please never stop. It's passion like yours (and, if I can say this without being pretentious) and mine that help change de literary canon and plucks masterpieces out of the smashing obscurantism of their language, complex constructs behind the language or simply misunderstandings of a lazy readership. You just changed the course not only of my research but of my life, and I'm deeply grateful for this - and, following your traces, I want to do the same. You may expect a letter from me in the future, If I’m successful in my publications.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Alien Fetus thrilled to hear it - your comment makes it all worth it. Looking forward to that letter, stay strong and keep reading.

[@ZM-gz5og]

chill out with those parentheticals damn what the fuck

[@Star-pl1xs]

@@ZM-gz5og fuck off

[@johnochiltree1170]

Making story of the eye a film? That's pretty hardcore. Like actually hardcore. Like more hardcore than most hardcore adult films!

[@nikvolkov6247]

John Ochiltree isnt salo basically like the story of the eye?

[@netsaosa4973]

all you need is an egg and someone willing to stick it up their ass

[@silascoggeshall9950]

@@nikvolkov6247 Salo was based off of 120 Days of Sodom by Maquis De Sade

[@ヴァリ-z3e]

@Erna Prohonic _points_ Bot.

[@armandj.8864]

There was actually a hardcore adult film made of Story of the Eye back in the early 00's.

[@TheDylbert]

You have what it takes. The words that you spoke from 28:15-29:10 is something that, not only every filmmaker must understand, but also what every human must understand. Also Christopher Doyle is the perfect cinematographer for this film! Congrats man!

[@cfanwise2485]

OMG please, see my other comment. We have time. Life is long. We are time existingly. Only lazy sloppy losers think otherwise.

[@Violetcas97]

I both received and finished my copy of Story of the Eye today and I’ll admit for the first few pages I was skeptical, but soon I realized what I was dealing with, around the time of the Orgy. Much like innocent young Marcelle I felt like I had been driven mad once my brain put the pieces together in the following chapters. In so many things for the rest of the day and probably for the rest of my life now I can’t help but see Bataille and I’m both amazed and disturbed by how easily chaotic debauchery and sexuality can pervade everything. It’s been a very long time since I’ve had a novel shake me in such a way. Thank you Sargent. Thank you for convincing me to read this and many other world shaking books. It took me a while after this review to convince myself to read it but I am glad I did.

[@lindseygroomes4437]

"I force myself to contradict myself so as to avoid conforming to my own taste." -Marcel Duchamp. I believe that this quote mirrors the physicality of Bataille's work. Just want to share the quote. I kind of view it as a mantra.

[@MaridK]

I like it.

[@marceloadelar]

the reason I really loved your channel is that I feel we have a similar artistic sensibility, so I really take your recommendations seriously knowing that I will likewise love the book.

[@cda6590]

None of my philosophy-nerd friends have ever even heard of Bataille, and they all generally think I'm crazy when I try to explain it to them. It's cool to see someone else is so passionate about his works. I hope this is still in production. If I weren't just a lowly part-time dishwasher I would absolutely contribute.

[@gutfrets1693]

i don’t understand it either. could you explain ?

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

I experienced that same sense of really *feeling* the thoughts of a thinker when reading Deleuze and Guattari’s “A Thousand Plateaus”. I’ve been itching to read Bataille, especially considering they mention him often, and I definitely will be doing so now. Thanks for the lucid thoughts :)

[@elaakso0080]

Its 4 years later now hows it going with shooting the movie?

[@VikMaslyak]

Love. I have been searching too long for this book during my book store travels and I've noticed it is not often carried...I may just have to make an online purchase. I really find your literary tastes to be immaculate. I really appreciate you and your videos. Thank you.

[@AlecGandy]

SO EXCITING! This seems so legit. Have you seen any of Philippe Grandrieux's films? Probably the closest any filmmaker has come to channeling the spirit of Bataille, I think. The images from Sombre and La Vie Nouvelle are incredibly febrile. They never leave.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

I can't believe I've missed it - though someone told me to watch earlier Bruno Dumont because the script reminded them of moments in 'L'Humanite', which I loved. Much quieter but still intense.

[@jcrass2361]

Keep doing you, bro. You've got this.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Sometimes hearing that is enough to keep going, thanks man

[@cfanwise2485]

Wouldn't hold my breath hahaha

[@Pantano63]

I heard about this book in a goodreads review of another French book called Moravagine (heard it was similar to Journey to the End of the Night), which also mentioned The Torture Garden. And now I'm here lol I love all these surreal and dark French books, it's a particular flavor you can't find anywhere else. I hope you review Moravagine some day, man, it seems like a book you'd review. Also your passion is contagious!

[@GabeinBabylon]

That intro's pretty snazzy. Lovin' this channel's direction.

[@Darkblood112]

I was actually interested of reading this book before seeing this, now I need to immediately read it as soon as I can!! LIMITS ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN!!!! Btw good luck with the film and make sure you put the fucking effort into bringing the book into life!!

[@siege2218]

Finished Story of the Eye today. Wow. Powerful book. Havent excitedly sped through a book like this since The Old Man and the Sea. Going to have to re-read it. Thank you so much for keeping this novella in the light of day.

[@holocened]

Congrats on the 2 year anniversary! This is so incredible, your passion for the film and the book is so palpable that it's almost contagious (especially when you can't find the words so you resort to doing that frenzy motion with your hands). I finally ordered the book after a long time of waiting (no book store near me stocks it).. your thoughts on the Story of the Eye are communicated so eloquently and I really can't wait to revisit this video and fully engage with your ideas after I've read it. Best of luck with everything!

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Thank you so much for the support Dervla

[@sklakoo]

Hey . What happened with the movie ? 4years later ?

[@onfaerystories]

Ok, I haven't watched this video yet and I will definitely write another comment, but I must tell you how excited I am about this video since I had to read this book at the end of last year and write a dissertation on it. I got more than 90%. It was quite a disturbing read, I wouldn't say it's my favourite book (The Perfume is), but what I find interesting is that my male teacher, Jean-François Chénier, was also obsessed with this book. It was his favourite and he even wrote a whooole book dedicated to it called "Communiquer l'incommunicable: Une lecture des œuvres de Georges Bataille et de Pierre Klossowski" (Communicate the incommunicable: A read of the works of...). I would often think about you when he would speak. He's the French-Canadian version of you, actually. :P

[@paulhobson8987]

Thanks for making me aware of George Bataille. I have not got around to reading him yet, as I am in the midst of a pretty full on reading list (Homer, Dante, Eco, Burroughs, The Egyptian Book Of The Dead amongst others) but I have looked into this man's work, and on first impressions, he might just have been a genius. Enjoy your channel too, cheers for the good reviews. You also got me investigating In Praise Of Shadows. And 2666. Your reviews may ultimately end up being responsible for raising my IQ a few points (which would not be a bad thing believe me).

[@lizz0id524]

I needed to watch this review, especially since it's been so long that I have watched your genuinely thought-provoking and well-spoken reviews (my old account, neverwintermute, I remember when you started this channel!). After viewing this, I am absolutely inspired to keep writing my novel that I have been writing for over 6 years - but first, I must read this book, something I should've done a long time ago... especially since the book I am writing shares a common theme: what does it mean to be human? Seriously, you need to rename your channel to Better Than Therapy. It goes without saying, but I appreciate you taking the time out of your life to share your thoughts and passions with us. I know it's been nearly a year since this was published, but I wish you the best of luck on the film.

[@cliffsargent5599]

Thank you very much for watching and commenting, it's my pleasure, and I'm glad you're getting so much out of it. Wishing you well in your writing.

[@diegoinjapan]

I didn’t get much out of this book at all. I like your passion for it. I will read it again now to see if I can “get it.”

[@Arginne]

I think it’s for people who like to think they’re more intellectual than they really are.

[@Paola-ob4rv]

It's 3:18 AM and I've just been slapped in the face. That type of slap that puts your life into perspective when you've just about lost it. I've been falling into this unfortunate slump of absurd excuses and loss of motivation. This is exactly what I needed at the moment. Congratulations on the accomplishments thus far; I am excited to see the progression of the project transgress that of establish boundaries.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Thank you very much Paola

[@weirdcommie9842]

Great video. I started reading Bataille last year. Story of the Eye was the first book I read by Bataille and reading him changed me as a person and changed my life

[@m00min-music]

Just discovered your channel, for now the best book reviews I saw on KZbin.

[@timkjazz]

Gotta read it now, can't wait. hope the film is something you're currently working on, "Follow your bliss." Joseph Campbell.

[@baiduryabose9994]

Your review is really enlightening. I am currently reading Bataille. Bataille , I think like other so called mad artists like Gauguin or van Gogh or many many others , is not understood by many. He needs to be read and reread to understand his purpose, his philosophy. He is a beautiful philosopher. Love Bataille.

[@laubedunfou2848]

"I'm not a philosopher, perhaps I'm a fool, or maybe even a saint"

[@xbzkxpazvzv6800]

did you make the movie?

[@heitorcaramez]

How is the movie going?

[@k.arlanebel6732]

I see Bataille as one of the genuinely important voices of his time and place, but he is not of course an ultimate definer of “reality”. In fact, one of the major premises of Bataille’s work is that reality cannot ultimately be conceptualized and therefore articulated and defined. Nietzsche’s suggestion that there is ultimately no reality is saying the same thing. Nietzsche’s primary problem with the idea of “transcendent” non-material reality, such as is found in Platonic philosophy, is that it functions as a concept of ultimate reality and creates a sort of circular stasis that actually serves to evade reality. Nietzsche’s insistence on a strictly material reality is actually just a defensive reaction to this decadent tendency in humanity to try to curtail reality into a comfort zone of unchallenged ideas and behaviors. This evasion gets fused with religion and becomes sacrosanct and a taboo is generated concerning the any questioning of it. One of the problems I have with Bataille himself is that he seems to believe that getting rid of “God” as a functioning concept creates a freedom from conceptualizing itself. It doesn’t. Atheism is loaded with conceptual thinking and therefore a filtering of “reality” through concepts. And no matter how far one goes in pornographic transgression of bourgeois norms, it doesn’t remove the human functioning of conceptualizing. Ultimately what Bataille wanted was to destroy the, for him intolerable, human condition and enter a radically different super-human reality. Not as spiritual transcendence, which would of course still be human-all-too-human, but as something beyond conceptualizing. But he couldn’t do it. He remained human no matter what he thought or did. His project with his associates to create a practice of human sacrifice proved this. All of the members of this association were willing to be the victims of this sacrifice, but none of them were willing to be executioners of it. Why? Because they discovered, when actually confronted with the opportunity to do this, a certainty in themselves that somehow the act would be impure and not what they actually desired it to be. None of them were pure enough to properly carry it out and simply doing it would not make them pure enough. They knew intuitively that it would be simply a “religious” fraud that would not break through into the super-human. Bataille himself admitted that he was incapable of shaking his radical sense of evil and he agreed with Nietzsche that the goal was beyond good and evil. My own view is that Bataille made an error in becoming an atheist/materialist. That itself was a conceptual move that laid a trap for him. What he should have done instead was to replace God with Reality without even concerning himself with whether Reality was material or non-material. Reality is what is, and what is, is endless and beyond concept. There is no Reality versus Illusion. Spiritual versus Material. The only concept of contrast here that can possibly function in a proper way would be one of Infinite versus Finite without any “good and evil” overtones. And, in fact, if Bataille had taken this path, he would have been able to infiltrate and undo Christianity from the inside because the Infinite God that “incarnates” is precisely an Infinite/Finite issue. And from this perspective Jesus Christ can be seen as the anti-bourgeois radical human who actually overcomes the human and destroys all the effects of the eating of the fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil. This is not done by spiritual transcendence, but by God/Infinite becoming Human/Finite so that both God and human disappear into a third new reality that is neither spiritual nor material, infinite nor finite, good nor evil. Of course, Bataille would have been branded a heretic and driven out of the Church. But he would have planted a seed in the concept of God that would have germinated into the undoing of God by the very will of God and also the undoing of the human. And all this could have been philosophically justified by Patristic teaching. Oh, well, I guess I’ll have to just do it myself.

[@tisgoodjuju]

Based patristic, scholastic thought does it again. Huge thanks for this comment

[@valentinevalentine9690]

Yes indeed , your comment was profoundly enlightening for me. It really helped me to wrap it up and put a bow on it, so to speak. Do you have a channel bc I could listen to or read your thoughts endlessly.

[@victorguevara9227]

Have you ever heard of Momus? My sister discovered Momus on Halloween. She listened to Hippopotamomus. Momus has been described as the "David Bowie of the art pop underground". She really likes the track "Bluestocking", which mentions "Story of The Eye", because she's read most of the texts mentioned.

[@dimproductions1]

I love it because for me at least, it's like reading a francis bacon painting

[@francineemma2051]

after hearing you review. I got the book, reading it now. excited for you and your adaptation of this book into film. great job! all my support! cannot wait to see your work.

[@Jammer98825]

Happy 2 year anniversary Cliff!

[@CBMAN]

so glad youre reviewing this! this is the book that got me into books

[@Lauriina]

Happy two year anniversary

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Appreciated!

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

The passion and inspiration you have for this thing. Awe inspiring and insane. Manifestations made real by your words and jokes and challenges of transformation and perversions. If I were to underline the essential adjectives of my comment here, they would be of the conceptual sort. All seen through the eye of philosophers, the writer, the poet, the director and most importantly the pervert.

[@Jothemermaid]

i just read this book a few days ago...... honestly astounding. i can't stop thinking about it. you expressed very well what i haven't been able to in your review. congrats on the film as well! i have high hopes for you, and would love to contribute in some way. where are you planning to film?

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Jo Zaczkowski France and Spain! Glad to hear it had the right effect - thanks for watching.

[@andyalam5074]

Where are you with this project now?

[@bobnunnemin1273]

I think what Bataille expresses, is an absolute actualization of A PASSION within any given context, regardless of the overall "meaning of" ONE'S PASSION, and the relationship between ABSOLUTE EXPERIENCE and the actualization felt in relation to the END OF ONE'S TOTAL EXPERIENCE (that is, EXPERIENCE transcends "YOU"). Therefore, whatever "meaning" is ascribed to one - both of which relate to an absolutism within all personal experience (BEING) and total end of that absolute (ONE'S DEATH). If anyone has ever "clung to life" like I have (not in a sexual context- serious disease as a kid), Bataille's principles, and their implications are directly relatable - which is not to say I revel in death itself. I know what it's like to "see THE end" and LIVE (that is, NOT DIE) in a way that wasn't "OF MY OWN SELF". however, lucidly I "personally" recall it... Cool stuff, love a lot of the books you review (you're the one who turned me on to Bataille btw. :) prolly went full tard a min ago.... Aww Dem dems dun is dun replace dis shit like eleventy-five times. Hmu man :).

[@dharmabum8549]

Love this book. When I was a teen I read an interview with Bjork. She said it was her favorite book. I read it. Then reread it then ever couple of years reread it again.

[@LewisOsborne]

I work as a casting assistant in London for some great casting directors. Don't think that helps but... Yaaay for the film industry

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Actually, if you know a really good one who could cast this thing, that may be huge.

[@LewisOsborne]

Better Than Food: Book Reviews - they wouldn't take it seriously until there was a director, producer, budget ...etc. But can defo give you a list of names/emails. We also have the best actors in the world ;) #biased

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Technically I have all three of those, emails would be great. Who are you with?

[@LewisOsborne]

Better Than Food: Book Reviews - i'm a freelance assistant, still a beginner. So I bounce around different offices. Will send list through to the cliff email.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

I sincerely appreciate it Lucian

[@jackedmondson6185]

I just realized that one of my favorite artists based one of his works off the eyeball scene in this novel that some illuminati shit (the artists is Suehiro Maruo btw)

[@PhilosophyLeckie3]

a great maga artist the best

[@PedroDominguesunus]

Christopher Doyle???? I really hope you get to make this!!! How did you find him???

[@hunnyawatramani3751]

I guess this book was featured in the movie called "Before Sunrise" where we first see Julia on a train reading. Was it the same one?

[@Gustavomazu]

you know what would be really cool of you to review (still in the Halloween mood)? The Giles Corey book. It's a little artsy, somewhat experimental book that comes with the vinyl for the self-titled album (Giles Corey is a musical project originally). It blurs the line of what's real and what's only in the book's universe in such a way that it WILL leave you with an existencial crisis. It's full of spirits, nihilism, witchcraft, depression.... really heavy stuff. You can download it with the album here: gilescorey.bandcamp.com/album/giles-corey (((((or you can read it here sssssssshhhhhh) vk.com/doc55478464_395156705?hash=55e7a181f51365bc32&dl=247bc9d7e895be6800

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

I was listening to that album when I read this the first time, thanks for suggestion

[@keenandemarsico4046]

the review we've been waiting for! I read the story of the eye because of your recommendation and loved it, and got death and sensuality on my desk to read. I am just a poor autodidact reader with nothing to offer, but I enjoy your videos very much and would be interested in any of your projects. the fucking cinemetographer of in the mood for love-like really? thats amazing-im hesitant to talk up my contemporaries, but go for it cliff! so awesome. I will only add that your relationship with bataille seems similar to my absolute obssesiom with Wittgenstein.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Guess I'll have to catch up on Wittgenstein - thanks for the support Keenan

[@SaltAnd_Ash]

Is there any sort of audiobook for this?

[@valpergalit]

How’s this project going? Haven’t heard much news about it lately.

[@TheWarrrenator]

Ever attempted to get in touch with Clive Barker and his crew? Huge GB fan.

[@michaelkennedy3275]

Did the movie get made?

[@maddiemonster]

Holy shit! You have an Acephael shirt! Have you read the Encyclopdia Acephael by Bataille? Its a delightfully absurd, surreal, nd sinister "reference work" which seeks to illustrate the ideas / obsessions of the "order" Its really just another alternatively structured fever dream of source material :D Also, you ought to check out the films of French director Jean Rollin, Bataille was his babysitter.... yeah.....

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Madeleine Spencer that makes TOTAL sense - great story

[@MapleMilk]

I read a few pages of it. My life is in pieces and my arms are trembling This book made me uncomfortable in all of the ways I fucking love it

[@yuriabreu5784]

well, thanks for recommending the book, good luck on your project dude!

[@dfgsdfhgdhggdffgfhds]

I just read this book. It fell flat for me - perhaps because I find eroticism gratuitous unless it has purpose. This one, seemingly had none. I suppose it did have something I took away from it: the evil consequences of debauchery and vice. But this is something I already knew. I really appreciate your review, and I found it to summarize the book in a manner more satisfying than actually reading the book. That said, I will certainly watch story of the eye when it does eventually end up being released. And I love your passion for the book.

[@thunderpooch]

Some people like sex, some people are generally prudes. Some will kill for sex. Some will kill not to have sex. I find it fascinating that people prattle on and on about sex or prattle on and on about how destructive sex can be. Possibly if the film can explain why eroticism plays such an important aspect into lives, whether fully embraced or avoided with repulsion, then maybe that would make for a good movie.

[@666arno666]

The movies of Walerian Borowczyk could be an interesting inspiration for this adaptation. I dont know exactly why but i'm also thinking about Son of saul as an inspiration for this.

[@666arno666]

(Alain Robe Grillet work too in «Glissement progressif du plaisir» (with a kind of direct hommage in the scene with the eggs on the «bloody» naked body)

[@MiguelHernandez-ui8cd]

Hey what an appropriate (and bad ass) shirt for this review! Love your stuff, love Bataille, thank you!

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

(black one's by favorite) www.etsy.com/listing/180905007/acephale-georges-bataille-andre-masson-t

[@jasonmorgan5004]

I think Freud made the most insightful comment on sadism when he referred to it as “wounded narcissism.”

[@alexanderschmidt8520]

Great review and great project!!! I literally ADORE Georges Bataille as he's one of my favorite writers too and my favorite philosopher. So true what you said about his philosophy being one, which can (and must) be felt! I came across Bataille when writing my Master thesis on Andrzej Zulawski and looking for theories on ecstasy and excess. I wish you good luck that you can find the financing for your adapation as soon as possible. An with Christopher Doyle behind the camere - wow, just wow! There have been two attempts to adapt "Story of the Eye" by the way, but both extremely unsatisfactory. But with you as director I have hight hopes! Keep on like your doing!! PS: Just one recommendation for a book that is written in a similar vein although completey different at the same time: "Night of Lead" by Hanns Henny Jahnn - I bet you'll love it.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Fantastic - I'll check it out right now, I sincerely appreciate your support, would love to read your thesis on Zulawski - thanks so much man.

[@alexanderschmidt8520]

I could mail it to you but it's in German.

[@johannesclimacus3091]

Have you read any more Cioran? Have you read any Kierkegaard? Will you review any of their books?

[@jayarrington240]

I love to see someone on fire with the passion of their work. Best of luck with the project, but remember - sleep. Sleep will restore those energies and help give time to your brain as it sorts through so much. Fire burns, sleep heals.

[@AnaCarolina-dc6mv]

you should read Hilda Hilst obscene work.

[@jupiterinaries6150]

I would not want to see this made into a film but that's just me. It would probably be a short film, maybe a conceptual film. I first read SOTE in the late '90s and was blown away. It was given to me by a hot female friend hehe.

[@ralaznable8640]

Awesome review, you should review his other novellas, My Mother, Blue of noon, L'Abbe C

[@Beyondflix]

I always knew you were a film buff and I like your passion for this project. I'm a german filmmaker and I got most of my technical education in Paris. Also, I got some very small acting chops to my still non-existent name. So maybe we can get together one way or another. I'll pm you in the morning, cause I still got some work to do.

[@santoslarre]

Holy fucking shit you're amazing at pitching, I'm def reading that one next. BTW I'm looking for an update on your project to adapt it. Do you think a short film would be a good way to promote it? Like a super indie no budget type thing. It sounds like something doable, single location, couple actors. That's what I did to make my 1st film. Good luck!

[@funkenschlag5701]

I just read this book and now I'm terrified of fetishes.

[@giodashorts]

Would you shoot it on 35mm film? And would you translate it to French? The film being spoken in French? I'm very interested and impressed by your desire to make this into a feature film. It's amazing. I haven't read the book, but now, because of you, I will be reading it as soon as possible. Funny that I found out about you over your review of Tarkovsky's, "Sculpting in Time".

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

giodashorts thank you very much for the support - I'd love to shoot it in 35mm, however for a first time film it's outrageously expensive and it's contractually stipulated to be in English (that, believe it or not, was not my choice). I'm sure some French and Spanish will be in there though.

[@kylewhitehead1684]

You can get a really good aesthetic from 16mm with the advent of digital scanners. You can just do a HD transfer on that bitch and do just a little colour correction and it can look great, especially if you decide to go the black and white route. Certainly preferable to digital, especially for this kind of a story.

[@chefandy72]

Wait a second... there was a movie made from the novel, it was long ago and in black and white, i forget all other details about it........................ I read the book back in the late 90's.... a young emo/goth girl who may have been either or neither but liked leather and had a purple streak in her hair asked me to read the book and give her my reaction, she stood 2 inches too close and looking up at me with black masquera........she might have approached me quickly and given me a little hop in the future if i had given her the right reaction to what i thought of it.... i had been commuting to work with foucault pendulum in my hand and something else as well at about the same time, i forget........ I do remember the reaction i gave and the response i was given..... i'll let someone guess the reaction, her response was that i was "a cog in the wheel".... i was a bit of a project fpr some back then, i believe around that time i had been to a coke infused small party held by a dancer with the facial features and look from an art deco era spoke to me about "the symposium", i would end up remaining a virgin a few more years..... i like the talks in your videos, although the beverages make me feel i'm at a party but i'm behind a one way mirror made for me and all my own.

[@nanani8239]

Are you still looking for actors? I am totally fascinated…and interested.

[@curtismoore3565]

If you havent read Batailles Literature and Evil- I highly recommend it. Guy hated the enlightenment's emphasis on 'reason'

[@arwaldc9056]

I’m here because deathspell omega interviews often mention him lol

[@misquotedbuffalo3757]

There's nothing more seemly than a director who started out as a well read individual. Besides maybe coconut oil as lubricant or (from what I read) spermacetti. I have to wonder why want to make a movie? Always an important question to keep in mind.

[@Ardavan47]

Came back to this again after 4 years after the whole thing fell apart, such a shame. would have loved to see what you and chris doyle could have come up with. saying this even though i didnt understood the book's meaning ;)

[@dant5349]

Why did it fall apart? I've been scouring the Internet trying to find out what happened to this project to no avail

[@bme1125]

Hands down one of my favorite books

[@TheDonOTB]

Have you read The Serpent and the Lily by Nikos Kazantzakis?

[@bobsbigboy_]

hows the film going?

[@advazffgjdfg]

Have you read Land's "The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism"?

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Yes, Thirst for Annihilation is AMAZING.

[@TheInteriktigt100]

Have you read Nick Land's work on Bataille?

[@LongformJaunt]

Will be in future audience. I’d act in it. Look human, fairly young and I’ve done all the questionable things in my own life- Could lend the performance realism hahaa (I’m half serious, I don’t go near people anymore; That’s why I quit filmmaking to begin with.)

[@electricsquidxd3254]

Was the film released?

[@jessebarger1615]

How does Bataille's Blue of Noon hold up compared to Story of the Eye?

[@johnochiltree1170]

Jesse Barger story of the eye is better. Check out l’abbe c. Very twisted.

[@brianjanson3498]

I wrote a one-act play based on this novella. The setting is a pigsty. It is basically rutting in filth and onomatopoetic dialogue of grunting and groaning, oinking, and competing flatulence. It is equally profound. I had writer's block until I binge-watched eight hours of Beavis and Butthead. Thank you for the recommendation.

[@wxrmths]

I thought I was getting into eroticism when I read Miller, sounds like I had better check out Bataille. Cheers for the video dude.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

You're very welcome man - Yes they're different, both good - different.

[@arthurcardinalbaudelaire837]

Sadism is always nice to not leave out, you should check out some Marquis De Sade or Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch.

[@maxinemckenzie6076]

333 comments. Now 334. So much for dissipation. "Blue of noon".

[@ghanmee]

so uhm where's the film?

[@WildMen4444]

Where can I get in touch with you? I'd like to audition for the part of the Narrator

[@shanelevene4864]

How's your project getting on?

[@chrisflakus8681]

Where can I get that shirt?

[@averykral9654]

Seriously? Someone hit the dislike button already? Smh...

[@averykral9654]

I'm not a fan of the book either, but at the time I posted this comment the review hadn't been out long enough for anyone to watch more than a few minutes of it.

[@joemartin9101]

Like the book, this guy not so much tho

[@angelicalaflame8413]

YES go go goooooooo And shout out to Green Room for sure

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

No doubt - thank you.

[@angelicalaflame8413]

That film is actually close to the reality in some places in Oregon (as I'm sure you know). Also, one of the most sincere film depictions of punk today. I appreciate your channel, largely because of the dangerous material you review, which is relevant to our nihilistic times. So I look forward to a film that embodies these truths. Keep us updated on the project.

[@thomasfranche6770]

Every time you say Story of the Eye, I keep hearing "Story of O".

[@teeniebeenie8774]

how much / $ / to option it ?