Torture Garden
"A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of shocking. The opening satire is probably meaningful only to scholars of French political history, but the subsequent journey into the Far East accentuates connections between love and death, sex and depravity, fastidiousness...
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"A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of shocking. The opening satire is probably meaningful only to scholars of French political history, but the subsequent journey into the Far East accentuates connections between love and death, sex and depravity, fastidiousness and pleasure. And the petty, parochial corruptions of the narrator are put into context by the immersion into the Sadeian world of the Torture Garden." The Times
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781903517871 (1903517877)
Publish date: May 9th 2010
Publisher: Dedalus
Pages no: 206
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Erotica,
19th Century,
Horror,
Sexuality,
France,
French Literature,
Bdsm
From what I remember, I really enjoyed this book, just wasn't a good idea to read so soon after "Journal d'une Femme de Chambre", which I found much more subtle on the same theme
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