Story of the Eye (French: Histoire e l'oeil) is a novella written by Georges Bataille that details the sexual experimentation of two teenage lovers, and their increasing perversion. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his experiences. In its recent Penguin edition (2001), it includes commentary from the late Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag about the significance of Bataille's novella for literary and cultural depictions of human sexuality.