The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit tht has yet existed, " wrote "The 120 Days of Sodom" while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic...
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The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit tht has yet existed, " wrote "The 120 Days of Sodom" while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration -- a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud -- of the psychopathology of sex, it is considered Sade's crowning achievement and the cornerstone of his thought. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1935.
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802130129 (0802130127)
Publish date: January 10th 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 799
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Erotica,
Philosophy,
Horror,
Sexuality,
France,
Bdsm
My plan with this work was to read only the introductory essay by Simone de Beauvoir and The 120 days of Sodom. The introductory essay by de Beauvoir is great, but in the end, after reading de Sade, I think she is taken in by de Sade's efforts at self-delusion.As for de Sade, I finally decided to r...
Eww. I bought this book a while ago, and a couple weeks ago I decided to pick it up and read it... I did, but with much skippage for sanity's sake. Now, I will admit that I have a bit of a morbid fascination with someone who has a term for a deviant trait named after them. I picked up this book thin...
'tis the season...13 TALES OF TERROR: BOOK 1yes i know that Mr. Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade was all about the freedom of the spirit and the power of the mind to free itself from all fetters, and that those are the underlying themes of all of his works... ugh, who cares? too much genital mutil...
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