Marquis De Sade: His Life and Works
by Iwan Bloch
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A detailed, analytical study of the life and times of this brilliant but bizarre personality (and the sexually erotic times he lived in), containing the essence of all his writings, based on research by Bloch in private archives of the French Government, and Bloch's discovery of de Sade's unpublished manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom in Marseilles. The work contains a precis of the 120 Days of Sodom, the first attempt systematically to catalog and describe abnormal sexual behavior -- 100 years show more before Krafft-Ebing. A serious academic study of France during de Sade's time, its sexual morality, de Sade's works, and the role of sadism in literature, etc., this biography precedes de Beauvoir's Faut-il Brule de Sade? and began the resuscitation and modern study of De Sade. The author Iwan Bloch, a German physician, won a distinguished name in the world of science in the fields, of medical history and anthropology. show lessTags
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I'll sum up my feeling with a quote from the book."The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings"-Iwan Bloch
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Is an abridged version of
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Donatien Alphonse-François, Marquis de Sade
- Original language
- German
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, History, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 301.41 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Social structure
- LCC
- HQ79 .B57 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Sadism. Masochism. Fetishism, etc.
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- Languages
- English, French, German
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- ISBNs
- 6
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- 12
