The 120 Days of Sodom
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the...
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The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivment.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781604594188 (1604594187)
ASIN: 1604594187
Publish date: March 26th 2009
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Pages no: 376
Edition language: English
(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...
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