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The magnum opus of infamous French libertine, aristocrat, erotic author and extremist politician, the Marquis de Sade. The ultimate exploration of sexual deviation including sado-masochism and violent sexual abuse, this is a shocking insight into the psychopathology of sex, seen through the eyes of history's most famous sexual deviant. With an introduction by famous feminist writer and literary critic, Simone de Beauvoir.
Marquis De Sade (Author)
The Marquis de Sade, born Donatien Alphonse Fran ois in 1740, is
one of the most famous and notorious figures in French history. The
man whose name coined sadism is best known for his violent and
blasphemous sexual exploits, which he recorded in his books and
plays. After a series of arrests and exiles for acts of sodomy and
sexual abuse of a number of prostitutes, the Marquis de Sade was
eventually successfully imprisoned in the Bastille in 1784. On 4
July 1789, he was transferred to an insane asylum at Charenton near
Paris. Ten days later, the storming of the Bastille, a major event
of the French Revolution, occurred at the famous prison. During
Robespierre's Reign of Terror in post-war France, Sade obtained his
freedom and soon established himself as an important political
figure. However, his public criticism of Robespierre ensured he was
imprisoned once more. In 1803, Sade was declared insane for the
second time and was reinstated at Charenton. He died there in 1814,
having conducted a sexual affair with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Simone de Beauvoir (Introducer)
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became
the youngest person ever to obtain the agregation in philosophy at
the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the
lycees at Marseille and Rouen from 1931-1937, and in Paris from
1938-1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the
existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps
Mordernes. The author of several books including The Mandarins
(1957) which was awarded the Prix Goncourt, de Beauvoir was one of
the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986.
Sade was one of the most radical minds in Western history, one that
touched, with astonishing fusion of madness and cold rationality,
on some of the most central aspects of psychic life... He remains a
great, horrifying, but also vastly illuminating figure
*Newsweek*
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