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Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

by Marquis de Sade

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Review:

"The supreme value of his testimony lies in its ability to disturb us. It forces us to reexamine thoroughly the basic problem which haunts our age in different forms: the true relation between man and man." Simone de Beauvoir

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"Justine is the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination." Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Shines a perverse and revealing spotlight on the entire era of the French Revolution....An important and elucidating book." Robert Lowry, Chicago Sun-Times

Review:

"Sade remains a great, horrifying, but also vastly illuminating figure." Newsweek

Synopsis:

This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine.

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No other writer has so scandalized society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century — from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka — is indisputable. This volume contains the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine; Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; and Eugenie de Franval, a novella widely considered a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature. This literary portrait of Sade is completed by one of his earliest philosophical efforts, Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man, a selection of his letters, a fifty-page chronology of his life, two important essays on Sade, and a bibliography of his work.
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ISBN:
9780802132185
Translator:
Wainhouse, Austryn
Translator:
Seaver, Richard
Translator:
Wainhouse, Austryn
Author:
Sade, Marquis de
Author:
de Sade, Marquis
Author:
Seaver, Richard
Publisher:
Grove Press
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Continental european fiction (fictional works
Subject:
Continental european
Subject:
Erotica
Subject:
Translations into english
Subject:
Sade
Subject:
Erotic literature, French -- Translations into English.
Subject:
Erotic literature, French.
Subject:
Erotica - General
Subject:
Sade - Translations into English
Copyright:
1994
Edition Number:
1st Evergreen ed.
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series Volume:
Bd. 38, Heft 4
Publication Date:
19940131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
784
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.38 in 31 oz
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Product details 784 pages Grove Press - English 9780802132185 Reviews:
"Review" by , "The supreme value of his testimony lies in its ability to disturb us. It forces us to reexamine thoroughly the basic problem which haunts our age in different forms: the true relation between man and man."
"Review" by , "Justine is the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination."
"Review" by , "Shines a perverse and revealing spotlight on the entire era of the French Revolution....An important and elucidating book." Robert Lowry,
"Review" by , "Sade remains a great, horrifying, but also vastly illuminating figure."
"Synopsis" by ,
This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine.
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