Madame Edwarda
1941
First Published
3.62
Average Rating
71
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Bataille's brief account of a young boy's sexuality run amuck. Here he presents us with Madame Edwarda, the author of a young man's sexual awakening. Stunning in its vividness, and the way sex can terrify, Bataille builds on his themes of women controlling through eroticism, and men complying via passivity.
Avg Rating
3.62
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297
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Author
Georges Bataille
Author · 41 books
French essayist, philosophical theorist, and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental act of communion. Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Sollers have all written enthusiastically about his work.
