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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings by Marquis de Sade
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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

by Marquis De Sade

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Grove Press (1994), Paperback, 799 pages

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Rather interesting. I found it more readable than Justine. I've got to say that I wouldn't recommend it to very many people; parts of it made me uncomfortable (and if I get uncomfortable while reading a book, most people I know would be tempted to throw the book across the room!). ( )
  rcgamergirl | Aug 10, 2009 |
Very vulgar. At some points it was difficult to get through. I will admit that it's an interesting piece of literature, but personally, I had to read it in small doses. ( )
  rickjr | Jun 11, 2009 |
A comical masterpiece. Hilarious! Almost as funny as Kafka.
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To the memory of Maurice Heine, who freed Sade from the prison wherein he was held captive for over a century after his death, and to Gilbert Lely, who has unselfishly devoted himself to the same task of liberation and restitution.
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The 120 Days of Sodom

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0802130127, Paperback)

The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud-of the psychology of sex, it is considered Sade's crowning achievement and the cornerstone of his thought. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1935.
In addition to The 120 Days, this volume includes Sade's "Reflections on the Novel," his play Oxtiem, and his novella Ernestine. The selections are introduced by Simone de Beauvoir's landmark essay "Must We Burn Sade?" and Pierre Klossowski's provocative "Nature as Destructive Principle." "Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change."-From Sade's Last Will and Testament

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