Sadomasochism and pain

Marquis de Sade A Biography
by Maurice Lever translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Publisher: Flamingo / HarperCollins
London, UK

Year


 		1995       first publ France: 1991
Cover / size: Paperback / h 19.7 cm * w 12.9 cm / 616 pp

Dustjacket?   n/a

ISBN: 0586210091

Arbery Ref:   001341

Condition Good

Cover: some wear to edges. Page edges: slight staining. Endpapers: erased pencil note. Pages yellowing but generally clean.

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Lever: Marquis de Sade






Content:

"In this definitive biography, the first to have complete access to the Sade family archives, Maurice Lever brilliantly reconstructs the life and times of the author of Justine and The 120 days of Sodom. Bringing the 18th century to life as vividly as Simon Schama does in Citizens, Lever paints a minutely detailed portrait of the aristocratic milieu that produced the 'divine marquis'.
from the cover .


Background / Biography:

A short article on Wikipedia describes Maurice Lever (8 August 1935 - 27 January 2006) as a literary historian.


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"The origins of the house of Sade bristle with legend. Its very inception is said to have been miraculous: the line is supposed to have originated with one of the three magi. In his Histoire de Provence César de Nostredame claims to have read somewhere that the family issued from the princes of Les Baux., who prided themselves on being directly descended from the Balts - not the inhabitants of Baltic shores but the Bolds, priestly offspring of a redoubtable family of Visigoths. The arms of these princes featured a star with sixteen rays, a mysterious comet whose origins the heraldists cannot trace. By a surprising coincidence the same star served as the emblem of the gypsies of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, who brought it with them from the east. For the people of Provence there was not the shadow of a doutb: Balthasar had visited Les Baux. When? How? No-one can say. "

opening paragraph, Prologue


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