by Marquis de Sade, Richard Seaver, Austryn Wainhouse
(Original Review, 2008) Personally,I think the way to understand De Sade is as a global pioneer in the art of trolling. His actual sexual acts were fairly tame in the broad scheme of things - 15 year-old servants, but people were getting married at that age in his time. As far as history records, ...
I wanted to finish this book, I really did. It was on my TBR for years and I was eager to finally check it off. But there's only so much of reading people eating shit one can take before it gets repetitive, and I have better things to do with my time.
Just awful. I can tell Sade struggled to find enough words and ways to describe beauty and penises.
ForewordCritical--Must We Burn Sade?, Simone de Beauvoir--Nature as Destructive Principle, Pierre Klossowskifrom Les Crimes de l'Amour--Reflections on the Novel (1800)--Villeterque's Review of 'Les Crimes de l'Amour' (1800)--The Author of Les Crimes de l'Amour to Villeterque, Hack Writer (1803)--Flo...
ForewordCritical--Must We Burn Sade?, Simone de Beauvoir--Nature as Destructive Principle, Pierre Klossowskifrom Les Crimes de l'Amour--Reflections on the Novel (1800)--Villeterque's Review of 'Les Crimes de l'Amour' (1800)--The Author of Les Crimes de l'Amour to Villeterque, Hack Writer (1803)--Flo...
Oi! Based on the blurb and the explaination of the book I expected it to be written in twentieth century language...I wasn't really prepared or desiring of a book written in old world language.So I DNF this book. I started it, really tried to read it, but it was giving me a head ache...I had to stop...
On hiatus. I need to take a break from it for the moment.
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