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Modern Classics My Mother Madame Edwarda the Dead Man

Paperback • 2012 • English

Modern Classics My Mother Madame Edwarda the Dead Man

By Georges Bataille

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About the book

In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Madame Edwarda is the story of a prostitute who calls herself God, and The Dead Man, published in 1964 after Bataille...Show more

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ISBN

9780141195551

Publisher

National Geographic Books

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Modern Classics My Mother Madame Edwarda the Dead Man

Format

Paperback

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