Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

No other writer has so scandalized proper 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 Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eug nie 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. 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.

Author: Marquis de Sade
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 01/11/1994
Pages: 784
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.41w x 1.93d
ISBN13: 9780802132185
ISBN10: 0802132189
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