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Sade: Marquis De Sade
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To read the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) is disorienting, intimidating, exciting, frightening and ultimately exhilirating. "The opposite of his readers," wrote Octavio Paz, "Sade has an iron will..." Meaning, Sade is not only something you read, it's something you withstand and endure, a battle of wills with the reader squaring off against the divine Marquis. If you can't read Sade to the end, you lose — and somehow even if you do, you still lose. It's like playing chicken with a bulldozer: if you run away, you're a coward, but if you don't, you're a fool — a dead fool at that.
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Based on a decade of research, The Marquis de Sade: A Life by Neil Schaeffer reveals the astonishingly non-sadistic Sade: his capacity for deep romantic love, his inexhaustible charm, his delusional paranoia. And through a dazzling reading of Sade's novels, including the notorious masterpiece 120 Days of Sodom, Schaeffer argues powerfully for Sade as one of the great literary imaginations of the eighteenth century.
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After 312 days of detention, Sade is finally released when his petition to the Committee of Public Safety is approved. Although the Marquis de Sade was a former nobleman and a true patriot, he was authorized to live in his home on the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins.
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These are the original Grove Press translations of the Marquis de Sade. Grove Press battled censorship to publish works by authors such as Sade, William Burroughs, and Henry Miller — so show your support and buy their books!
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About the Marquis de Sade, everyone knows too much, and too little. Even during his own time, the myth of Sade was growing, taking on a shape of its own, larger than his own life, so that he came to live not just behind the stone walls of the Bastille, but behind the equally impenetrable mask of false ideas other people put on him. In the end, he became a being not entirely of himself, but rather a kind of collaborative construction, a being of myth, a force in the consciousness of humanity, known by only one name: "Sade."
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Some revere the Marquis de Sade as a free-thinking radical, others condemn him as a depraved sex-mad monster. His novels are filled with sexual violence and mutilation but de Sade, infamous French writer and libertine, is a confusing figure. Was he as perverse and cruel as his critics suggest or were his novels a radical defiance of pre-Revolutionary French morality?
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