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Sadomasochism and pain
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Content: "Sade has long been one of the most controversial figures in history, a novelist who is also a dramatist and a poet, who first charted areas of the mind whose very existence was unknown to other writers. His fantasy world is closely akin to that of Swift and he has a breadth and variety found nowhere else in literature, together with an audacity of imaginative eroticism that has made the work of Sade the model of its genre for almost two centuries. Sade was himself a revolutionary and opponent of the ancien régime, but such is his loving description of the evils made possible by the old feudal privileges, that it is almost impossible to understand the aristocratic world of the late eighteenth century without some knowledge of his work. In our own time it has been a principal source for medical research into the mind and for some forms of abnormal psychology and pscyho-therapy, Sade having given his name to a perversion that is especially prevalent today. In this book, Simone de Beauvoir makes a closely reasoned plea for more open publication of the long-banned masterpieces, and the volume also contains extracts from the main writings, chosen and translated by Paul Dinnage, so that the reader will have some idea of Sade's very personal style, imagination and subject matter." (from the jacket; note that cover drawing of de Sade is by Man Ray) Background / Biography: Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"They chose to kill him, first by slow degrees in the boredom of the dungeon and then by calumny and oblivion. This latter death he had himself desired. 'When the grave has been filled in, it will be sown with acorns so that eventually all trace of my tomb may disappear from the surface of the of the earth, just as I like to think that my memory will be effaced from the minds of men . . .' This was the only one of his last wishes to be respected, though most carefully so." Secondhand booksellers |
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