The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
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The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
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Author : Joel Warner
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2023-02-21
The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade written by Joel Warner and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-21 with True Crime categories.
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written—Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom—landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history. “Reading The Curse of the Marquis de Sade, with the Marquis, the sabotage of rare manuscript sales, and a massive Ponzi scheme at its center, felt like a twisty waterslide shooting through a sleazy and bizarre landscape. This book is wild.”—Adam McKay, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across France, evaded execution, and inspired the word “sadism,” which came to mean receiving pleasure from pain. Despite all his crimes, Sade considered this work to be his greatest transgression. The original manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom, a tiny scroll penned in the bowels of the Bastille in Paris, would embark on a centuries-spanning odyssey across Europe, passing from nineteenth-century banned book collectors to pioneering sex researchers to avant-garde artists before being hidden away from Nazi book burnings. In 2014, the world heralded its return to France when the scroll was purchased for millions by Gérard Lhéritier, the self-made son of a plumber who had used his savvy business skills to upend France’s renowned rare-book market. But the sale opened the door to vendettas by the government, feuds among antiquarian booksellers, manuscript sales derailed by sabotage, a record-breaking lottery jackpot, and allegations of a decade-long billion-euro con, the specifics of which, if true, would make the scroll part of France’s largest-ever Ponzi scheme. Told with gripping reporting and flush with deceit and scandal, The Curse of the Marquis de Sade weaves together the sweeping odyssey of 120 Days of Sodom and the spectacular rise and fall of Lhéritier, once the “king of manuscripts” and now known to many as the Bernie Madoff of France. At its center is an urgent question for all those who cherish the written word: As the age of handwriting comes to an end, what do we owe the original texts left behind?
The Misfortunes Of Virtue And Other Early Tales
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Author : Marquis de Sade
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Release Date : 1999-07
The Misfortunes Of Virtue And Other Early Tales written by Marquis de Sade and has been published by Oxford Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07 with Erotic stories, French categories.
Revered by Enlightenment and Victorian thinkers, de Sade was recognized as a founding father by the Surrealists, and holds a prominent place in the history of modernism and post-modernism. This selection of his early writings, some appearing in English translation for the first time, revealsthe full range of his sobering moods and considerable talents.
The Life And Ideas Of The Marquis De Sade
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Author : Geoffrey Gorer
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-01-04
The Life And Ideas Of The Marquis De Sade written by Geoffrey Gorer and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This classic book is on the life and ideas of the Marquis De Sade, the notorious sexual libertine and controversial writer, and will make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Marquis De Sade
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Author : Simone de Beauvoir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
The Marquis De Sade written by Simone de Beauvoir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with categories.
The Marquis De Sade
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Author : Neil Schaeffer
language : en
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 1999
The Marquis De Sade written by Neil Schaeffer and has been published by Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the "divine Marquis," the enigmatic legend whose name is synonymous with brutal perversion and desirous cruelty. Against a magnificently embroidered backdrop of eighteenth-century France, Neil Schaeffer reconstructs the almost incredible adventures of Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade. When he was a young man, married off against his wishes to a middle-class heiress, his insatiable sexual appetites and disdain for all forms of convention drew him into a series of scandals, first with prostitutes and then with his sister-in-law. His enraged, social-climbing mother-in-law conspired with the authorities, and the result was Sade's thirteen-year imprisonment without trial. Later, freed by the Revolution, the brilliantly protean Marquis became a revolutionary leader himself and then narrowly escaped the guillotine. But with the publication of the novels he wrote behind bars, books denounced as lewd and blasphemous, he was again imprisoned. Under Napoleon, Sade spent almost twelve years in an insane asylum, where he died at the age of seventy-four following a final dalliance with a teenage girl. Schaeffer reveals the surprisingly unsadistic Sade: his capacity for deep romantic love, his passionate adherence to Enlightenment principles, his inexhaustible charm, his delusional paranoia. And through a dazzling reading of his novels, including the notorious masterpiece 120 Days of Sodom, he argues powerfully for Sade as one of the great literary imaginations of the eighteenth century, one who maintained a lifelong, ultimately self-destructive argument against the limitations of authority and morality. Based on a decade of research, TheMarquis de Sade is a definitive work that shatters nearly two hundred years of myth to reveal an irresistible Promethean figure of astonishing complexity.
The Marquis De Sade
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Author : marquis de Sade
language : en
Publisher: New York : Grove Press
Release Date : 1966
The Marquis De Sade written by marquis de Sade and has been published by New York : Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Erotic literature, English categories.
"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." -- from http://www.amazon.com (April 19, 2011).
The Marquis De Sade S Adelaide Of Brunswick
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Author : Marquis de Sade
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-01-28
The Marquis De Sade S Adelaide Of Brunswick written by Marquis de Sade and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-28 with History categories.
The Marquis de Sade is one of the most infamous men in all of history. His name, in fact, is where the word "sadism" is derived from. An infamous and perverse criminal, Sade was imprisoned for much of his life, where he had ample time to hone his talent for writing scandalous and mind-blowing erotic novels such as "Justine", "Juliette," and his magnum opus, "120 Days of Sodom". This book, "Adelaide of Brunswick," is one of Sade's historical novels, found among his papers after his death. It fully demonstrates the range and ability of a man whom history has vilified, but who was inarguably a philosopher, dramatist and author of the first magnitude.
The Life And Ideas Of The Marquis De Sade
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Author : Geoffrey d/ Gorer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Life And Ideas Of The Marquis De Sade written by Geoffrey d/ Gorer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Authors, French categories.
Marquis De Sade
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Author : Iwan Bloch
language : en
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
Release Date : 2002-03
Marquis De Sade written by Iwan Bloch and has been published by The Minerva Group, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03 with Authors, French categories.
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 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.
The Gothic Tales Of The Marquis De Sade
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Author : marquis de Sade
language : en
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Release Date : 2005
The Gothic Tales Of The Marquis De Sade written by marquis de Sade and has been published by Peter Owen Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Erotic stories, French categories.
From Library Journal: The eight stories gathered here are among the notorious author's most tame and approachable works, but they still contain some of his signature touches.