Description
A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking, and influential novel. Winner of the 2017 Scott Moncrieff Prize
This distressing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter clashed over him. This new translation brings Sade's provocative novel into Penguin Classics for the first time, and will reignite the debate around this most controversial of writers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Marquis De Sade
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 12/27/2016
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780141394343
ISBN10: 014139434X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Romance | Erotic
- Fiction | Erotica | BDSM
This distressing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter clashed over him. This new translation brings Sade's provocative novel into Penguin Classics for the first time, and will reignite the debate around this most controversial of writers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Marquis De Sade
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 12/27/2016
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780141394343
ISBN10: 014139434X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Romance | Erotic
- Fiction | Erotica | BDSM
About the Author
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography, as well as some strictly philosophical works.