Modern Classics My Mother Madame Edwarda the Dead Man

by Georges Bataille

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014119555X
• ISBN13: 9780141195551
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"