Justine & Philosophy In The Bedroom

Author: Sade Marquis de

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  • : $47.95 AUD
  • : 9780802132185
  • : Grove Press
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  • : January 1994
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  • : Sade Marquis de
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No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century -- from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevksy, and Kafka -- is indisputable. This volume contains the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, "Justine; Philosophy in the Bedroom, " a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; ....