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Marquis de Sade eLibraryTo read the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) is disorienting, intimidating, exciting, frightening and ultimately exhilirating. "The opposite of his readers," wrote Octavio Paz, "Sade has an iron will..." Meaning, Sade is not only something you read, it's something you withstand and endure, a battle of wills with the reader squaring off against the divine Marquis. If you can't read Sade to the end, you lose — and somehow even if you do, you still lose. It's like playing chicken with a bulldozer: if you run away, you're a coward, but if you don't, you're a fool — a dead fool at that. Downloads
120 Days of Sodom was Sade's masterwork. The manuscript was lost during the French Revolution — a fact Sade himself bitterly lamented — and was not published until the 20th century. And Philosophy in the Bedroom is pillow-talk like you've never heard it before, an alternation of philosophical discourse and ecstatic grunting. It also contains the famous speech "Encore un effort," which advocates murder, heresy, promiscuity, etc.
Retaliation is a humorous short story of infidelity, anti-clericalism, and revenge. It's good to read as a reminder that Sade had a great sense of humor, something not always obvious to readers of his more notorious tomes.
This is the first biography of the Marquis de Sade, published in 1899 and written by the German specialist in sexual disorders who later discovered the manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom. Although not as sophisticated as more recent biographies, it contains a wealth of weird sexual data on Sade and his times.
This is a brief life of Sade written by the brilliant French literary critic Roland Barthes. Taking an impressionistic approach, the text presents Sade not through chronology but through a selection of odd detail and characteristic incident. It was originally published in Barthes' book Sade Fourier Loyola. Recommended Reading at Amazon
Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings
These are the original Grove Press translations of the Marquis de Sade. Grove Press battled censorship to publish works by authors such as Sade, William Burroughs, and Henry Miller — so show your support and buy their books!
Annie Lebrun, Sade: A Sudden Abyss
Though you expect Sade to appeal to a primarily male audience, the two most insightful critical works about Sade were written by women. Annie Lebrun's is especially good.
Sade, Letters from Prison
For biographical background, these two books do the trick. The letters are especially fascinating, a collage of the trivial and the weird — like when Sade asks for masturbation aids to be sent to him in prison. Supervert, Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish Supervert's own book sends the Sadeian aesthetic into outer space! A veritable 120 Days of Saturn, ETSF is the case history of a man obsessed with the erotic potential of alien life. Email this page to a friendTell someone about Marquis de Sade Electronic Library at supervert.com. (Email addresses are not recorded or used in any way.) Your name
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