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== ''My Mother, Madame Edwarda'' and ''The Dead Man'' == == ''My Mother, Madame Edwarda'' and ''The Dead Man'' ==
-''My Mother, Madame Edwarda'' and ''The Dead Man'' comprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. They present a world of sensation in which only the vaulting demands of disruptive excess and the anguish of heightened awareness can combat the stultifying world of reason and social order. Each of the narratives contains a sense of intoxication and insanity so carefully delineated by the author that it seems to infect the reader.rinting. --[http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/Amy%20individual%20book%20info/MyMother.html]+A 1995 edition by [[Marion Boyars Publishers]] with essays by [[Yukio Mishima]] and [[Ken Hollings]] describes these works as:
 +:''My Mother, Madame Edwarda'' and ''The Dead Man'' comprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. They present a world of sensation in which only the vaulting demands of disruptive excess and the anguish of heightened awareness can combat the stultifying world of reason and social order. Each of the narratives contains a sense of intoxication and insanity so carefully delineated by the author that it seems to infect the reader.rinting. --[http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/Amy%20individual%20book%20info/MyMother.html]
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Ma Mère (English: My Mother) is a novel by Georges Bataille, posthumously and unfinishedly published in 1966. It was loosely adapted for a feature film by Christophe Honoré in 2004. See Ma Mère (film).

My Mother is a bildungsroman of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.

My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man

A 1995 edition by Marion Boyars Publishers with essays by Yukio Mishima and Ken Hollings describes these works as:

My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man comprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. They present a world of sensation in which only the vaulting demands of disruptive excess and the anguish of heightened awareness can combat the stultifying world of reason and social order. Each of the narratives contains a sense of intoxication and insanity so carefully delineated by the author that it seems to infect the reader.rinting. --[1]




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